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Quotes About Overtake

He was hounded incessantly by an impression of vital duties left unfulfilled and waited in vain for his responsibilities to overtake him.
~ Joseph Heller
To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent
~ Johan Cruijff
I do not see why I should e'er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew— Only more sure of all I thought was true.
~ Robert Frost
Did you ever read one of her Poems backward, because the plunge from the front overturned you? I sometimes (often have, many times) have - A something overtakes the Mind.
~ Emily Dickinson
Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.
~ Booth Tarkington
It terrified me to realize just how easy it was for mass delusion to overtake large swaths of humanity. That just below the surface of human kindness was a seething pool of unfathomable ruthlessness and cruelty, unequaled in the animal kingdom.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Stress is the trash of modern life-we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.
~ Danzae Pace
But chains made out of blood and memory were a thousand times more difficult to sever than those made of steel, and the past could overtake a person if she wasn't careful
~ Alice Hoffman
I know that's definitely the way for me to run races - instead of trying to burn up at the front and blowing up, it's always better to be passing people at the end.
~ Eloise Wellings
No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.
~ Anne Rice
If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit
~ George Eliot
He spoke as if procreation of children were an extraordinary fate to overtake anyone, consequence of imprudence, if not worse.
~ Anthony Powell
Those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. "I, even I, am he who comforts you." (Isa. 51:11–12 NIV)
~ Scotty Smith
No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.
~ Anne Rice
to overtake his son. "Stoats!" Crowfeather gasped. Snow-white stoats!
~ Erin Hunter
When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
~ Florence Welch
My thoughts are limitless. Social conditioning creates the limits. I like to overtake those and like to go where my thoughts take me.
~ Debasish Mridha
Not to fix the spirit was to seek death, and that was the same as to seek nothing, since death was going to overtake us regardless of anything.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Stress is the trash of modern life — we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.
~ Terri Guillemets
when a company offers a leap in value, it rapidly earns brand buzz and a loyal following in the marketplace. Even large advertising budgets by an aggressive imitator rarely have the strength to overtake the brand buzz earned by the value innovator.
~ W. Chan Kim
the Indians simply outran them. "They made such enormous strides that with all our running and jumping we could not overtake them," Pigafetta noted.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Stress is the trash of modern life—we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.
~ Dale Carnegie
Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.
~ Lawrence Summers
You have to score one goal more than your opponents. That's the most important thing.
~ Frank Rijkaard