Quotes with over-daring

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  • Oscar Wilde The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Herodotus The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Cate Blanchett Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Barbara Castle Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Beck There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bill Maris There are a number of start-ups in Europe that are able to reach beyond their own country. Take Spotify - Spotify just in Sweden isn't that interesting compared to Spotify all over the world.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • T. S. Eliot There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • St. Teresa of Avila There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Mark Twain There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bill Bryson There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Russell Hoban There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Mark Caine There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • Oscar Wilde There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Betty Parsons There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.
    Betty Parsons
    American artist, art dealer, and collector (1900 - 1982)
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  • Leo Buscaglia There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Bill Hybels There are two main principles I've picked up over the years as they pertain to cultivating the type of faith that moves mountains. The first is this: Faith comes by looking at God, not at the mountain. The second is this: God gives us faith as we walk by his side.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Louise Erdrich There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
    (2012)
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • E. B. White There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Erica Jong There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship - only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Owen Felltham There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
    Owen Felltham
    English writer (1602 - 1668)
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