Surpassed Quotes

84 Surpassed quotes by 73 unique authors

What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no… — Isaac Asimov
There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the… — Bret Easton Ellis
Alas, if worth be based on beauty, Snow White has surpassed you, cutie. — James Finn Garner
Room of Requirement, of course! Surpassed itself, hasn't it? the Carrows were chasing me, and I knew I had just one chance for a hideout:… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can… — James Gleick
Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost… — Sam Harris
This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling with the mind-scrambling… — Brandon Mull
Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation… — Thomas Merton
Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses. — Dean Koontz
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed… — Mark Twain
I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it. — Anne Rice
Childhood romances always seem so real, so enduring, when we are separated from the object of our affection. But usually, when we return, we find… — Judith McNaught
I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced. — Eric Jerome Dickey
I cannot kill him, she muttered to herself. I cannot kill him. I promised Bianka I'd stop at ten bodies a day, and I've already… — Gena Showalter
it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor. — Eiji Yoshikawa
What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. — Winston Churchill
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of… — Milan Kundera
[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed, that… — Max Weber
When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed. — Laurie Colwin
Both the United States and the world economy have already reached - and surpassed - their sustainable physical limits. Ground water is being drawn down,… — Donella Meadows
Lennon and McCartney have the best catalogue of songs ever produced. It will never be surpassed. — Bjorn Ulvaeus
The Stratocaster is like the Rolls-Royce. It can never be surpassed. — Dick Dale
Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia. — James Gleick
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part… — Edmond H. Fischer
This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent… — Anna Lindh

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