Overplus Quotes & Sayings

Singers are experts at keeping things from dripping on their throats. Believe me, they're experts. — Dolora Zajick

If Michaelangelo made a marble sculpture of a defensive end it would look like Mario Williams. — Dan Dierdorf

Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss. — Rebecca Solnit

Ivanov: No, my clever young thing, it's not a question of romance. I say as before God that I will endure everything - depression and mental illness and ruin and the loss of my wife and premature old age and loneliness - but I cannot tolerate, cannot endure being ridiculous in my own eyes. I'm dying of shame at the thought that I, a healthy, strong man, have turned into some sort of Hamlet or Manfred, some sort of 'superfluous man' ... devil knows precisely what!
There are pitiful people who are flattered by being called Hamlet or superfluous men, but for me it's a disgrace! It stirs up my pride, I'm overcome by shame and I suffer ... — Anton Chekhov

Politics is ethics writ large. — Brent Weeks

They're like chocolate-chip cookies, though. Can't have just one. — Steve Berry

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion. — Oswald Chambers

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to. — Mahatma Gandhi

All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus - More had not Alcinous! — Henry Austin Dobson

In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and responsibilities that needed to be shared. But today we have no rituals. We are not conducted into manhood; we simply find ourselves there. — Kent Nerburn

Better start planning my wardrobe for the Luuurve trail. What do the Hamburgese wear?
Cowboy hats, I suppose. — Louise Rennison

From where started, I think it is too far down to try and win a championship at the end of the season, although we had a very good first race at Mondello and scored some good points. — David Leslie

If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script. — Mel Gibson

Impossible is Nothing," it said. "Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. — Elna Baker

She'd barely covered up her long, tan legs in a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church on Sunday just to thank God for creating her.
- Beau — Abbi Glines

I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person. — Ginger Rogers

Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams. — Clark Ashton Smith