I’ve always taken ‘The Wizard of Oz’ very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I’ve spent my entire life trying to get over it.
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
I think my inner child wants to take over the world.
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
I have never been over fond of scenes anywhere.
Get mad, then get over it.
What I think I’ve been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.
One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
My dad came over from Ireland when he was 13 and lived on the streets, working on building sites, and has just retired from his job delivering furniture for John Lewis. My mum has had the same job for 30 years as a sales assistant at Marks and Spencer. They’ve always been really great; they just want me to be happy.
If you’re a competitive person, that stays with you. You don’t stop. You always look over your shoulder.
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
Being a big guy, you face certain challenges. Over time, though, women found excuses to find me attractive.
I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I’m using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I’ve visited over 90 countries thus far.
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
To me, if there is any sort of value added to the accumulation of knowledge over time, then the work of artists should be a reflection of that accumulated value, accumulated knowledge. You have to demonstrate that you have the sophistication to put that into play in the work you’re making.
Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts of new friends.
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.
No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!
Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Over the years, a lot of rappers – Lil’ Wayne, Ice Cube – have used my name in their songs. I’m a real touchstone of history.
Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
I am a thinker, and I do muse over things a lot and am constantly assessing whether I am doing enough or what I should be doing more of to make sure I am not letting anyone down.
What has happened has happened. What is done cannot be undone. There is no point in looking back and ruminating over the past. I am a forward-looking man. I want to look ahead; I want to put my past behind me. I want to make my country proud.
I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
I’m not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don’t like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader’s sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.
Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
Owning vinyl is like having a beautiful painting hanging in your living room. It’s something you can hold, pore over the lyrics, and immerse yourself in the art work.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it’s one damn thing over and over.
If Lincoln were alive today, he’d be turning over in his grave.
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they’re less defensive about it.
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.
I’m Jewish. I’ve always had a thing where it’s okay to dance with the devil, just don’t become the devil. Even at my peak, I never went too over the top.
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can’t even think straight.
Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
Control what you can control. Don’t lose sleep worrying about things that you don’t have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won’t have any control over them.
The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
So many people trip in front of them because they’re looking over there or up ahead.
Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that’s karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there’s karma all over again.
Of course I’d like children. But I have to get over my impression that being pregnant is like popping corn. You expand and expand until you pop.
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.
