Overturned Quotes

39 quotes by 38 authors

All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by… — Deepak Chopra
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter… — Stephen King
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through… — Hyman Rickover
Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people,… — Alexander Hamilton
It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the… — James Madison
I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than… — Herman Melville
The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The Black Revolution is… — Malcolm X
All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when an… — Stephen Jay Gould
I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment… — Guy Sajer
What will the world be quite overturned when you die? — Epictetus
Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not… — Saint John Chrysostom
Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, itâ€™s been because people acted as citizens, and not as politicians. They… — Howard Zinn
Do you know what's one mistake we always make? Believing that life's immutable, that once you get on a particular track you have to follow… — Susanna Tamaro
The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every… — George Washington
Do you know that all of the money that we are spending, that the government is spending, must come from you? The government has no… — J. Reuben Clark
Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp… — Gautama Buddha
We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we only make merit… — Ajahn Chah
The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very old and powerful… — David Foster Wallace
They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were… — Saint Augustine
The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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