Overtaken Quotes
40 quotes by 38 authors
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A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
— Chanakya
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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
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
— Paul Cezanne
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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
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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
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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
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His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.
— H.G. Wells
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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
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At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
— Albert Camus
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Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken
— William Hazlitt
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The GOP’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
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Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken.
— Marlon Brando
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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
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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
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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
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No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.
— Barbara Goldsmith
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I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage? . . .…
— Alan Ayckbourn
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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
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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
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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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