Overweeningly Quotes & Sayings

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child. — Anthony Minghella

I feel like men are more romantic than women. When we get married we marry, like, one girl, 'cause we're resistant the whole way until we meet one girl and we think I'd be an idiot if I didn't marry this girl she's so great. But it seems like girls get to a place where they just kinda pick the best option ... 'Oh he's got a good job.' I mean they spend their whole life looking for Prince Charming and then they marry the guy who's got a good job and is gonna stick around. — Blue Valentine

Ever set up a camping tent? From the inside? While wearing a suit of armor? It was a pain in the ass. — Andy Weir

I wouldn't change what happened to me because then I wouldn't have this chance, in front of all of you, to embrace more people than I ever could have with two arms. — Soul Surfer

Heart was tender. She probably felt shame for a transgression others would've long forgotten. — Nalini Singh

I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't you will eat away your innate contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments. — Elizabeth Gilbert

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve. — Steve Coogan

Because human beings suffer so much more than ducks."
"You might not think so if you were a duck. — Michel Faber

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay. — James Frey

Atlanta is not the South. — Pimp C

You can verify that in news meetings I sometimes say, 'This is skewed too far to the left,' or 'The mix of stories seems overweeningly appealing to a reader with a certain set of sensibilities, and it shouldn't.' — Jill Abramson