Top 100 Over Everything Sayings
#1. I can only sign over everything,
the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels,
the soul, the family tree, the mailbox.
Then I can sleep.
Maybe.
Anne Sexton
#2. Would you like a drink?" Politeness wins out over everything else I'd like to say.
"No, thank you, Anastasia." He smiles a dazzling, crooked smile, his head cocked slightly to one side.
Well, I might need one.
E.L. James
#3. I can see why you like it here, there's a thin layer of nerd all over everything.
Cassandra Clare
#4. I was a gentleman over everything. An ass-appreciating gentleman. We are the finest kind of man. I should open my own ass-appreciating gentleman's club one day.
Karina Halle
#5. What then?" But she put the thought from her mind. When the war was over, everything would be settled, somewhow. If Ashley loved her, he simply couldn't go on living with Melanie.
Margaretta Mitchell
#6. The person she loved is dead, stolen by someone else. Mine chose to walk away. Chose everything I hate over everything I am. I wonder which hurts more. Before
Victoria Aveyard
#7. And it occurred to her that she was so used to turning over everything in her mind, as if each thought were an intricate shell found at the beach, that she had never truly known the value of simply accepting things as they were.
Jacqueline Winspear
#8. Mind has no matter or energy but they can't escape its predominance over everything they do. Logic exists in the mind. Numbers exist only in the mind.
Robert M. Pirsig
#9. In one night, I went from a man in complete control over everything in my life to a mixed-up mess, falling for a chick way more fucked up than I ever could have imagined. Falling for her? Fuck, try already fallen, jackass.
Willow Madison
#10. So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and combat
Over everything debatable and combatable
Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life
Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
Ogden Nash
#11. Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#12. Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.
Lamar Alexander
#13. Over everything stands its daemon or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected by the eye, so the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#14. I'm just sick of all the misery, my absolute lack of control over everything.
Melina Marchetta
#15. When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.
Harriet Tubman
#16. Now, I'm so relaxed that I have to make myself nervous. I feel better when I'm second and third guessing myself over everything. I play with the mice in my head, all the time.
John Singleton
#17. Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everything. For the love of God, replace all this self-scrutiny with a pure and simple glance at God's goodness.
Jane Frances De Chantal
#18. Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.
People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They saw this other thing, they pounded it with sticks.
Maybe there had to be variety for life to work. Swoon over everything, you get bored. Beat everything with a stick-boring.
Dean Koontz
#19. I be yellin out money over everything, money on my mind then she wanna ask when it got so empty. Tell her I apologize, happened over time. They say they miss the old Drake, girl don't tempt me
Drake
#20. Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything.
Woody Allen
#21. He likes control over everything, including me. Yet he's so unpredictably and disarmingly agreeable, too. He can be tender, good-humored, even sweet. And when he is, it's so left field and unexpected.
E.L. James
#22. Being a mom to my son has taken precedence over everything in my life, and I think that's the order it should be ... It's a great challenge that I don't think's ever gonna stop.
Ciara
#23. Fingerprints are like values
you leave them all over everything you do
Elvis Presley
#24. Have you ever met a woman you wanted to give everything to?
just turn over everything you had?
-Davy Dempsey-
Jennifer Crusie
#25. A lot of people like to fool you and say that you're not smart if you
never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That's
what I learned from selling crack
Snoop Dogg
#26. I went over and over everything that had ever happened between us. I couldn't keep doing it, going back and fourth, holding her close and then pushing her away. It wasn't right
Jenny Han
#27. God spreads grace like a 4-year old spreads peanut butter-He gets it all over everything.
Mark Lowry
#28. Grace of the Almighty, the Truth you can withstand all, the Hope life will get better, Love over everything, Peace which dwells within, Joy at life and all her ups and downs, and Brave - the ability to face it all without fear.
Jenni James
#29. For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.
Khaled Hosseini
#30. It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.
Nichelle Nichols
#31. The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.
Albert Camus
#32. Facts are not merely finding a footing-place in history but they are usurping the domain of fancy and have invaded the kingdom of romance. Their chilling touch is over everything. They are vulgarising mankind.
Oscar Wilde
#33. A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
Sara Teasdale
#34. It was very sad under the trees. Although spring was well advanced, in the deep shade there was nothing but death-rotten leaves, gray and white fungi, and over everything a funeral hush.
Nathanael West
#35. [R]est assured that, when you remain thus in the state in which obedience has placed you, the merit of this same obedience extends over everything you do, giving each action inestimable value, even when things do not turn out as you wish.
Vincent De Paul
#36. God has control over everything, and obviously, everything to everyone is god-given.
Troy Polamalu
#37. not the end of the world, just darkness over everything," Charlie cheerfully said. "it gets dark - turn on a light.
Christopher Moore
#38. Men often complain of the wickedness of women. Of how we delight in what power we have over their hearts. But they reign over everything else, so of course, they grudge us this, should we ever come to rule over this thing the size of their fist.
Alexander Chee
#39. Struggle is not an act; it is an attitude. If we believe that we must fight to get what we want, we will toil over everything we do. If we recognize, however, that the universe works more efficiently for us when we approach it with ease, life will serve us in miraculous ways.
Alan Cohen
#40. Nightmares are at all times better than real life; because you always have the chance to start over everything.
M.F. Moonzajer
#41. I throw a leather biker jacket over everything. It adds an instant downtown cool vibe and stops a look becoming too girlie. Bonus points if you wear it like a cape!
Ashley Madekwe
#42. The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed.
Evan Osnos
#43. I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.
Raymond Pettibon
#44. I'm just happy that I'll have someone to give all my shoes to! I'll have someone to take over everything. It's funny because I'm having a lot of fun buying clothes for my daughter. She already has shoes for when she's a size eight. She's covered for a while.
Kristin Cavallari
#45. Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.
Niels Diffrient
#46. It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.
Gene Roddenberry
#47. What's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything.
Rupert Everett
#48. She focused on that nothingness, imagined it as ink spilling over everything she could possibly think or feel.
Marie Rutkoski
#49. I went to the juice isle, I learned something. Cranberries are taking over everything. What do you got, apples? Put some cranberrise in there, make it 50/50. Cran-apple. Grapes? Cran-grape. Mangos? Cran-mango. Pork chops? Cran-chop!
Brian Regan
#50. That's how it is with a thing like grief as well. It lies oil slick over everything you do. It will pour out through the gaps in the most ordinary afternoons.
Barney Norris
#51. Dust was time in material form, Hubert could no longer remember who had said it, or where he had read it. At any rate, a lot of time seemed to have collected in his studio, because there was a thin, almost transparent layer of dust over everything.
Peter Stamm
#52. I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and film seemed more fun when I was younger; turning left on planes and washing up in nice places. But there are things that you only learn in theatre.
Paul McGann
#54. Iron bridges hum and lofty buildings of steel and glass glint in the sun's rays and lean over everything with stretched shadows.
Logan Ryan Smith
#55. I don't ..." She was about to tell him that she didn't understand, but stopped before she finished the sentence. There was nothing to understand - not now. She could mull over everything later, when she was safe.
Nora Ash
#56. What you have with the Bond movies is this character gliding over everything. The fact nothing touches him is why we all want to be him. But it also makes him a sort of superman who in the end you don't really relate to.
Robert Wade
#57. Doll always said, Just be quiet. Whatever it is, just wait for it to be over. Everything ends sometime.
Marilynne Robinson
#58. The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Thomas Carlyle
#59. Women only cut their hair in times of crisis ... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help.
Bella Pollen
#60. You have to have a balance and understand that as much as you would like to have absolute control over everything, it's just not realistic.
Khoi Vinh
#61. Presidential primary debates are an important part of our political process. But the media has wrested complete control from the parties and candidates over everything, including the number, the format, the qualifications, and the moderators. And they've become a circus.
Mark McKinnon
#62. You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.
Paul Kantner
#63. And I don't like people who eat powdered doughnuts. I don't car how careful you are, they're just plain messy. I can't believe they taste good enough to justify getting that sugar all over everything, especially me.
Erin McKean
#64. That always used to make you happy don't do the trick anymore, because they can't break through the sadness and fear that are covering over everything in your life.
Shauna Niequist
#65. In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.
Ann Voskamp
#66. I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.
L.M. Montgomery
#67. If you thought about it you'd realize that you don't have control over everything, but you control how you react
Charles Benoit
#68. I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.
Paula Hawkins
#69. I really think that to a lot of people hair is everything. Bad hair takes over everything, it really does. I think if somebody has bad hair it doesn't matter what else is happening.
Goldie Hawn
#70. I think I'm the most hurt by the fact that I'm not like him. I would've chosen him over everything else. The whole world could've burned down and I would've pulled him from the wreckage of it.
Amy A. Bartol
#71. She was thinking how it was the unfinished business. This was why she could not sleep. She could not say the day was over. She had no sense that any day was ever over. Everything was still going on. The business not only not finished but maybe not done well enough.
Lydia Davis
#72. Whether as individuals or as couples, our mission is to make as many disciples as we can during our time on earth. This takes priority over everything else. So
Francis Chan
#73. I think we all have our own different styles. [James] LeBron likes to be comfortable - he's going to be more comfortable over everything else. Dwyane [Wade Jr.] likes really stylish stuff. If you bring something questionable he'll try it.
Chris Bosh
#74. I think Barack Obama and his team believe that the federal government is best prepared to handle virtually everything in our lives. I mean, they're socialists in every respect of the word and I think they'd like to take over everything in our lives if they could, including health care.
Mark Neumann
#75. But a fix, some magic cure to his "poor" status, was really only a dream; reality usually took precedence over everything else, especially dreams.
M.L. Sanford
#76. My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
Rafe Spall
#77. Having children changes everything; it changes your entire perspective about life since from the moment they arrive your new world begins and ends with them, your concern for their welfare is paramount over everything else and your life is scheduled around their needs.
Tess Daly
#78. Time, it covered over everything eventually. Events, people, memory. Chiniquy had disappeared beneath Time.
Louise Penny
#79. This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light.
David Almond
#80. It is not easy to fight elections with a development motto and I am glad people of Gujarat rose above personal and emotional tangles and prioritized development over everything else.
Narendra Modi
#81. Guys are like dogs. You wish you could take them all home when they're young. But after they've howled all night and slobbered all over everything, you come to realize the ones already trained are much easier to live with.
Paula Wall
#82. Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.
Cyril Connolly
#84. In the slanting beams that streamed through the open doorway the dust danced and was golden. The heavy scent of the roses seemed to brood over everything.
Oscar Wilde
#85. That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence over everything else, and that I give them everything I can to make them exist as actual people.
Daniel Clowes
#86. The sky's gone blue: azure, the ocean bluer: cerulean, the trees are swirls of every hella freaking green on earth and bright thick eggy yellow is spilling over everything.
Jandy Nelson
#87. I chose love - I chose you over everything that was offered to me.
Josephine Angelini
#88. I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life.
John Wesley
#89. I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.
Martha Beck
#90. I have total control over everything. I'm doing it all for me.
Myleene Klass
#91. The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.
Daniel Handler
#92. But they had already tried, again and again and again, and always, when the first crashing wave of mutual longing subsided, the ugly wreck of the past lay revealed again, its shadow lying darkly over everything they tried to rebuild.
Robert Galbraith
#93. The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country ... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.
Salman Khurshid
#95. So often, you don't get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you're on set.
Queen Latifah
#96. Beautiful is another word we tossed around too casually, slopping it over everything from cars to nail polish until the word collapsed under the weight of all the banality. But the world is beautiful. I hope they never forget that. The world is beautiful.
Rick Yancey
#97. You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#98. Life is not enjoyed by being busy over everything in general, but being passionate about one thing in particular. Always focus on that one thing; dream it and live it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#99. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.
Ian Anderson
#100. We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat
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