Quotes About Overrun

Our borders are being overrun.

I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.

It would stink in the land to have it said that an appropriation of $20,000 for furnishing the house had been overrun by the President when the poor freezing soldiers could not have blankets," he went on. The White House "was furnished well enough—better than any house they had ever lived in.

The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites, most of the web is chock full of popup ads and other interruptive come-ons. It's nearly impossible to find signal in that noise, and the web is in danger of being overrun by all that crap.

Their arrival was like an attack of locusts in a rice field, fast and uncontrollable.

If you're looking at people like Patrice Lumumba, you are looking at people who had a very definite plan, and events overran them.

Countries once established on Judeo-Christian principles have become overrun by ideologies and organizations that seek to strip society of all that is sacred. Without a major turnaround, civilization itself is going to self-destruct.

We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.

Himalayans (blackberries) seize the land, gobbling acres, blanketing banks, consuming abandoned farmhouses and their Studebakers and anything left alone in the rain for five minutes or longer.

So why isn't the world overrun with evil spirits? Moira stared at her, a half-smile on her face. Who says it isn't?

I hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things.

Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters?

Overrun on every side, stoicism, faithful to its principles, had the elegance to die without a struggle.

strong incentives and weak disincentives for cost underestimation and thus for cost overrun may have taught project promoters what there is to learn, namely that cost underestimation and overrun pay off. If this is the case, cost overrun must be expected and it must be expected to be intentional.

Cost underestimation and overrun have not decreased over the past seventy years. No learning seems to take place; • Cost underestimation and overrun cannot be explained by error and seem to be best explained by strategic misrepresentation, namely lying, with a view to getting projects started.

The Freedom Tower has a cost overrun. A significant cost overrun.

So many of our institutions have been overtaken by schools of thought, which are inherently a dead end.

swarm a man under!

The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.

In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.

Twas ostensibly ominous in the overview To be 'orribly and onerously overrun.

The house was overrun with ivy, its chimney being enlarged by the boughs of the parasite to the aspect of a ruined tower.

By the 1770s, the Teton Sioux had overrun the Arikara, or Ree, on the Missouri River and made it as far west as the Black Hills, where they quickly ousted the Kiowa and the Crows. Over the next hundred years the Sioux continued to expand their territory, eventually forcing the Crows to retreat all the way to the Bighorn River more than two hundred miles to the west, while also carrying on raids to the north and south against the Assiniboine, Shoshone, Pawnee, Gros Ventre, and Omaha.