All Quotes

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
‐‐ Jonathan Raban

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
‐‐ Theodore Roethke

Over fifteen years of studying the American Right professionally - especially in their communications with each other, in their own memos and media since the 1950s - I have yet to find a truly novel development, a real innovation, in far-right 'thought.'
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
‐‐ George Washington

Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA.
‐‐ Thad Cochran

Over in the UK and in Wales, it's nice to turn on the TV and see 'Baywatch.'
‐‐ David Hasselhoff

Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.
‐‐ Enya

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.
‐‐ Marc Ostrofsky

Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.
‐‐ Anthony Lewis

Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.
‐‐ Martin Rees

Over my career, I've had to adjust my game.
‐‐ Dwyane Wade

Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
‐‐ J. August Richards

Over my career, somewhere, somehow I must've made some right calls. Otherwise, I wouldn't be in business.
‐‐ Marc Faber

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.
‐‐ Dinah Sheridan

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.
‐‐ Eric Bana

Over my lifetime, women have demonstrated repeatedly that they can do anything that men can do, while still managing traditional women's work at the same time. But the same expansion of roles has not been available to men.
‐‐ Anne-Marie Slaughter

Over my NFL career, I've had five head coaches who have helped me become better at my craft and have helped me become a better human being: Jim Mora, Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, John Fox, Gary Kubiak.
‐‐ Peyton Manning

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.
‐‐ Eric Alterman

Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
‐‐ Iain McGilchrist

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.
‐‐ Charles Vest

Over rolling long periods, U.S. and non-U.S. stocks tend to equalize.
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher

Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning.
‐‐ Tom Chatfield

Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.
‐‐ Amy Waldman

Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
‐‐ Brian Greene

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.
‐‐ Gary Hamel

Over the course of 19 years on the Supreme Court, I learned some lessons about the Constitution of the United States.
‐‐ David Souter

Over the course of a day, you get to get a feel for where you're playing, so when you get out on stage, you already feel like you've had a bit of a bonding experience with them.
‐‐ David Nail

Over the course of a year - from January 2014 to March 2015 - millions of Americans, hundreds of businesses, and dozens of policymakers weighed in at the Federal Communications Commission in favor of net neutrality.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

Over the course of history, many Jews have ultimately embraced Christianity - some forcibly, some in order to advance in non-Jewish society, some out of wholehearted belief.
‐‐ Meir Soloveichik

Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
‐‐ M. Night Shyamalan

Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as an artist, I value the discourse that arises from this. I can only hope for this discourse to be informed by fact, so that whether you love my work or hate it, you give it, and me, the benefit of the truth.
‐‐ Terry Richardson

Over the course of my entire Wolverine career, I went from being a single guy to getting married and having kids, and I think you can see that progression in the way that I treated Wolverine.
‐‐ Jason Aaron

Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions - most of them taking me further away from my Somali roots and steadily toward the enlightened mentality of Western democracy.
‐‐ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.
‐‐ Graham Yost

Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it.
‐‐ Dave Rowntree

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.
‐‐ Robert B. Laughlin

Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.
‐‐ Stephen Cambone

Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.
‐‐ James Fallows

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it's not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don't want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it's not unhealthy, so I'm going to rock with it.
‐‐ Rihanna

Over the holidays is when I have the most occasions to cook and bake.
‐‐ Nina Dobrev

Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the rolled-down stockings. They sort of referenced that in 'Cabaret,' when Liza Minnelli was singing 'Mein Herr,' and I love the way she looks in that scene.
‐‐ Amy Heckerling

Over the last 10-15 years, you've seen soccer finally start to grow at a fast pace, start to get the recognition it deserves, and I think it has to do with all of the people who come to America from foreign countries.
‐‐ Claudio Reyna

Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal, tax credits, the minimum wage and improved childcare have brought about record numbers of people in work, a number that is still rising despite the global economic slowdown.
‐‐ Lucy Powell

Over the last 10 years, women have stalled out at the top.
‐‐ Sheryl Sandberg

Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
‐‐ Barack Obama

Over the last 15 years or so, Manchester has undergone huge transformation - from a city in decline and on its knees to one that is growing, vibrant and confident.
‐‐ Lucy Powell