Overbear Quotes & Sayings

There is always a commanding and simple line around each head. Learn to have a love for the big simple line. — Robert Henri

What goes unsaid is that women might be more ambitious and focused because we've never had a choice. We've had to fight to vote, to work outside the home, to work in environments free of sexual harassment, to attend the universities of our choice, and we've also had to prove ourselves over and over to receive any modicum of consideration. — Roxane Gay

Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment. — Marcus Aurelius

I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories. — Gail Sheehy

I've been thinking so much about how grateful I am to cover the court because the constraints of calm and civility are really palpable when you look across the street, and that, you know, I feel like the discourse has become so overheated that, you know, we talk about everything in the exact tone that seems to sort of preclude reason and to preclude the possibility of agreement. — Dahlia Lithwick

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. — Ansel Adams

General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril. — C.V. Wedgwood

Things happened when you were little. Things you don't remember now, and don't want to. But they need to escape, need to worm their way out of that dark place in your brain where you keep them stashed. — Ellen Hopkins

I never, with important air, In conversation overbear ... My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain. — John Gay

Reality is not what you think. — K.M. Aul

All his life he had had a horror of definite appointments. An invitation to tea a week ahead had been enough to poison life for him. He was one of those young men whose souls revolt at the thought of planning out any definite step. He could do things on the spur of the moment, but plans made him lose his nerve. — P.G. Wodehouse

He's happier." Sully stares down at me. "He's happier with you too, you know." We're both smiling for a long moment. Being the cause of someone's happiness, well - that feels like love, doesn't it? — Krista Ritchie

If you want to work with people, then you have to know how to administrate, that is to organize them and lead them. — Sunday Adelaja

Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash. — Margaret Deland

I need to know, Hannah. Why did you fucking leave?" His brutal tone is clear as his fingers trace their way up my thigh and skim over the silk material of my underwear. I push my pelvis towards him; I need his fingers in me now. He has different ideas, trying to tease an answer out of me, and my invitation for more contact is ignored. If there is any chance of me having what I want, I need to answer him. — A.J. Walters

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses. — Samuel Johnson

I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.' — Jack Reynor

When I started half, our three biggest competitors were Borders, Tower Records and Blockbuster Video. — Josh Kopelman