Overreached Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Medical prescriptions, everything that she needed for the performance, in bed, of her duties to soul and body, to keep the proper times for pepsin and for — Marcel Proust

I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves. — Martha Finley

When a Japanese woman disrupts the powerful sequence of natural movement with her jerky little steps, we ought to experience the disquiet that troubles our soul whenever nature is violated in this way, but in fact we are filled with a unfamiliar blissfulness, as if disruption could lead to a sort of ecstasy, and a grain of sand to beauty. What we discover in this affront to the sacred rhythm of life, this defiant movement of little feet, this excellence born of constraint, is a paradigm of Art. — Muriel Barbery

There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day. — Michael Howard

May the pain of every living creature be completely cleared away. May I be the doctor and the medicine and may I be the nurse for all sick beings in the world until everyone is healed. — Shantideva

The greylag mate for life? If ye kill a grown goose, hunting, ye must always wait, for the mate will come to mourn. Then ye must try to kill the second, too, for otherwise it will grieve itself to death, calling through the skies for the lost one. — Diana Gabaldon

When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power. — Tom Shadyac

Choices are powerful things. In fact, they're more powerful than most things. — Amy Neftzger

Your true kingdom is just around you, and your leg is your scepter. A muscular, manly leg, one untarnished by sloth or sensuality, is a wonderful thing. — Alfred Barron

I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end. — Jeanette Winterson

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Little people have to hate, have to blame someone for their own inadequacies. — Glen Cook

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford. — Jamie Farr

Our purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

It was Sunday
not a day, but rather a gap between two other days. — F Scott Fitzgerald