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Over Quotes by Yann Martel
- Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new…
- Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps…
- I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
- How bitterly glad I am to see you. You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because…
- If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask…
- Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great…
- Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the…
- Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
- It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as…
- Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed…
- I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I…
- May books spread the world over!
More Over Quotes
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
- Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. — Isaac Asimov
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough