Superincumbent Quotes & Sayings

As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions. — Valeria Golino

Oh, what a tangled web we weave ... when first we practice to deceive. — Walter Scott

I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power. — Claire Tomalin

Dream, dare and discover.
Care, share and inspire. — Debasish Mridha

England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although she has not lost her liberty or fallen into anarchy, yet we behold the population of England crushed to the earth by the superincumbent weight of debt and taxation, which may one day terminate in revolution. — John C. Calhoun

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings. — Felix Frankfurter

The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds. — Sabine Baring-Gould