Outdoes Quotes & Sayings

The reverberation often exceeds through silence the sound that sets it off; the reaction occasionally outdoes by way of repose the event that stimulated it; and the past not uncommonly takes a while to happen, and some long time to figure out. — Ken Kesey

the ancient saying that force outdoes inferiors while gentility outdoes superiors. — Liezi

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons. — George Bernard Shaw

Don't tell me what you're going to do, show me what you've done. — Smith

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit — Marcus Tullius Cicero

She hates the fact that she won't know. It's feels like the last day of school, the final night at summer camp, like everything is coming to an abrupt and dizzying end. — Jennifer E. Smith

Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation. — Mordecai Richler

The reward that outdoes all others is the peace of knowing that you did right. — Jack Hyles

All these do-gooders make it sound like you just have to repent and off you go to heaven, but what about all the atrocities the Catholic religion did to us? Who pays for that! They just took over our lives!! — Stephen Richards

Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself. — Lynn Margulis

I never doubted at all. If you ever doubt then you are in trouble. I never thought: 'I should do this or that in case I don't make it.' I never had a back-up plan. — Kevin Spacey

All countries have poor people. Yet it's a very rare country which understands the indignities of poverty, while education systems maintain the status quo. The children of the elite go to the best schools and get the best jobs, not because they are the best. We're not taking advantage of the intellectual power on this planet. — Ann Cotton

Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them. — Wilbur Smith

No one was around to publicly shame me, but I am perfectly able to shame myself. And worse -- around myself it is not a matter of appearing to be stupid and heartless; instead I confirm to myself that I am definitively one or the other. — Heidi Julavits

It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages. — Ellsworth Huntington

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it. — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

We bought good footballers. But many haven't got it, that football is a running and fighting sport. Against Bayern every team outdoes itself. And we do too little to counter that ... We need a couple of attack dogs. Sometimes I sit on the bench and think, 'Man, is this a friendly match?' — Otto Rehhagel

To make a great movie is such a combination of different things that need to come into play to actually make a memorable film and not have a film to fall by the wayside, to have something live on during the years, and one of those elements is the commitment the actors have to their performance. — Edward Zwick

The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship. — Cennino Cennini

Load of ole mollygrubbers — Karen Miller

My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one. — Matthew McConaughey

I'm going to take a shower. You're going to be good, try not to be sexy or freak me out or anything like that. I've got to concentrate, preparing for a formal party is serious business. I don't need distractions."
His eyes went half-mast and his half-grin appeared.
"You're doing it!"I accused.
His eyebrows went up.
I shook my head. "Never mind".
Then I stomped to the shower. — Kristen Ashley

The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films. — Emraan Hashmi