Overtaken Quotes

40 quotes by 38 authors

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you. — Chanakya
Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one… — Richard Rorty
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. — Paul Cezanne
Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to help or hear… — Daniel Defoe
We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude… — Jason Whitlock
Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to… — Cesar Chavez
His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken. — H.G. Wells
The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is… — Konrad Lorenz
At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century. — Albert Camus
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken — William Hazlitt
The GOPâ€™s thirst for confrontation and crisis is symptomatic of a destructive and nihilistic streak that has overtaken our political system. When one party repudiates… — Mike Lofgren
Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken. — Marlon Brando
But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death.… — Plato
You demonstrate biblical love when you take steps to restore a fellow-believer overtaken in sin. This not only encourages a fallen believer to return to… — John C. Broger
Dear friends, sometimes we may be tempted to allow ourselves be overtaken by laziness or despondency, especially when faced with the hardships and trials of… — Pope Francis
No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality. — Barbara Goldsmith
I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage? . . .… — Alan Ayckbourn
The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point… — Gilles Deleuze
The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I'm benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to… — James Nachtwey
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when… — Epictetus

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