Top 100 Over What Quotes
#1. There's the life we dream, the life we deserve, and the life we get. I'll take what I got over what I deserve any day.
Kate Jacobs
#2. They watched as the Shaw brothers played tug of war with a crocodile over what Travis would guess was a nine-point buck. The buck was still kicking, too, but that didn't stop the brothers or the croc.
"I'm sensing the crazy gene, hoss," Donnie mumbled.
"Ya think?
Shelly Laurenston
#3. Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition.
Seth MacFarlane
#4. I argue with wife over what little pieces of real estate investments we should try to pay on and hold, and which to let go back. We always said, "Put it in land, and you can always walk on it." We did, but no buyers would walk on it with us.
Will Rogers
#5. Not all of us have the control over what we can do. Some struggle with their abilities."
"But you do?"
"I'm just that awesome.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#6. Fear is really the sin of unbelief....I am talking about fear coming from believing what we see over what God tells us is true.
Jean A. Sturgill
#7. I finally realized that until you understand why you do things, you have no control over what you do.
Jamila Wideman
#8. The effective executive, therefore, asks: "What can my boss do really well?" "What has he done really well?" "What does he need to know to use his strength?" "What does he need to get from me to perform?" He does not worry too much over what the boss cannot do.
Peter F. Drucker
#9. Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you
covet.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib
#10. There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need ... you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.
Mitch Albom
#11. When life goes on doesn't it just trample over what was there before?
Catherine Dexter
#12. We have no control over what haunts us. We're helpless to it.
Jill Bialosky
#13. Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#14. Do you often wonder," she continued, desperately hoping her questions would win Vasily over, "what might have been had his gaze fallen upon some other miserable wretch? Yes, you would have been destitute, starving in the streets, scraping for your next meal ... but even beggars are free.
Melika Dannese Lux
#15. As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.
Scott Ellis
#16. Seth hustled over. "What's the password?"
"Passwords are for sissies," Warren's muffled voice responded.
"Works for me," Seth said, unlocking the door and opening it.
Brandon Mull
#17. If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true.
Julia Sweeney
#18. You hire a chief executive, pay him, and hold him accountable after a year or two. The time for so-called honorary jobs is over. What Pakistan squash needs is results, and that can only be achieved by professionals.
Jahangir Khan
#19. What is right has to win the day over what we may see as rights.
Ravi Zacharias
#20. Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.
Lisa Wingate
#21. To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#22. Candid still photography had taken over ... What was interesting was that the photographs came without any intention of instructing you ... You're like a cat looking out the window. You don't have to even know what you're watching, but you're watching it, and you're watching it very accurately.
D. A. Pennebaker
#26. There can be no bravery without fear. The soul's triumphant fight over what's most feared is the definition of courage.
Patricia A. Knight
#27. I think people have some control over what they want; there's a relationship - maybe not automatic - between what you want and get.
Sam Waterston
#28. Great change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over & release control over what you don't.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#29. Our apprehensions were over what we might find, or fail to find, at the end of our journey; for silence continued to answer all calls despatched to the camp.
H.P. Lovecraft
#30. Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.
Spike Lee
#31. Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you.
Steven Redhead
#32. Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.
Paul Kane
#33. But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop?
Anthony Burgess
#34. Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.
Ravi Zacharias
#35. She is not in my books, and what kind of man would choose words that are already written over what might still be?
Erika Swyler
#36. I doze and wake so many times
my dreams reach over what is real,
the real becomes my dreams.
Pat Lowery Collins
#37. There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attitudes that deny them full agency over what happens to their bodies.
Stella Young
#38. Reaching was a dangerous thing: it indicated longing. Longing was dangerous because it indicated need. Need was exploited, need was abused, need was someone else's power over what they could touch.
Enee N. Altson
#39. We had a good run, and now it's over; what's wrong with that?
Garth Stein
#40. When you start to "fall down the stairs" there is that moment when you realize that you have no control over what is going on. You simply experience the plunge and see where it takes you.
Don Piper
#41. Release blame. It does not help you to go over and over what you think you should have done or said. Stop blaming other people too. You don't need to make yourself or other people "wrong" in order to deal with your life in the moment.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#42. In my experience, fear comes from not knowing what to expect and not feeling you have any control over what's about to happen. When you feel helpless, you're far more afraid than you would be if you knew the facts.
Chris Hadfield
#43. Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.
Alan McCluskey
#44. Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.
Brene Brown
#45. I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.
Richard Simmons
#46. In foster care it's easier to measure what you've lost over what you have gained, because it there aren't many gains in that life and you are a prisoner to someone else's plans for your life.
John William Tuohy
#47. The only thing worse than failing to realize any of your dreams, is seeing them all come true. You were meant for something more. Even if you could be known the world over, what does it matter if you have no time to be known by God?
Kevin DeYoung
#48. None OF Days Are Ever Promised ... So Don't Waste Another, Being Angry And Upset Over What Was Done To You, You Don't Have Or Should Have Been.
Timothy Pina
#49. I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.
Gloria Whelan
#50. Our God loves triumphing over what looks impossible; therefore, he calls an ambush without any means of escape "an opportunity"!
Lisa Bevere
#51. And that's what I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different world and kind of portraying a character that is interesting. Because other lives interest us, that's why we read magazines like 'People' and try and fascinate and drool over what other people are doing.
Alex Pettyfer
#52. I always tell people that if you get upset over what someone says, imagine him or her with a clown's nose on and you won't get so angry.
Bernie Glassman
#53. Christ never was in a hurry. There was no rushing forward, no anticipating, no fretting over what might be. Each day's duties were done as each day brought them, and the rest was left with God.
Mary Slessor
#54. Don't stress over what you can not control. Always remember you can not control other people.
Me
#55. With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#56. To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#57. Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.
Paula White
#58. And there you sit, gloating over what you have done, as if you were a martyr or a public benefactor
as complacent and smug and misunderstood as a princess from the moon forced to herd goats!
Hope Mirrlees
#59. The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.
Ornette Coleman
#60. That we were slaves I had known all my life
and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold
but as long as Authority held monopoly over what we had to have and what we could sell to buy it, we were slaves.
Robert A. Heinlein
#61. American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might bring.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#62. If you truly feel that self esteem and motivation have to happen first before you can make changes in your life, then we'll probably be sharing walkers at a retirement home as we talk over what might have been.
Shannon L. Alder
#63. The best way to survive life is - never fret over what you don't get. There's a bigger plan for you.
Shilpa Shetty
#64. I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality.
James Joyce
#66. Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious.
Keith Senior
#67. You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do.
Rob Corddry
#68. When our purpose is to seek God and to discover His will for us, daydreaming is right and acceptable. But when our inclination is to spend time daydreaming over what we have already been told to do, it is unacceptable and God's blessing is never on it.
Oswald Chambers
#69. Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
Lech Walesa
#70. There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit, catching tiny glimpses of its independent life, resting for a moment in its wisdom, puzzling, laughing sometimes, over what it's up to, what it makes of you.
Marsha Norman
#71. I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.
Chris Cuomo
#72. The thing that I did not like about being signed to a label was I unable to have control over what I wanted to do.
Jessica Sanchez
#73. Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.
Helen Thomas
#74. I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past
Christopher Paolini
#75. The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
Aaron McGruder
#76. Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.
Mildred D. Taylor
#77. It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.
Kent Haruf
#78. The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't think that uncertainty over what the tax rate will be for someone that makes a million dollars a year has that big an impact on the economic growth rate in the country.
Austan Goolsbee
#79. Know that you have complete control over what you put in your mouth. No one ever ate anything by accident.
Charles Poliquin
#80. The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#81. A jealous person is doubly unhappy-over what he has, which is judged inferior, and over which he has not, which is judged superior. Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation.
Desmond Tutu
#82. I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.
Beth Gibbons
#83. The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who will decide? Even there, where we had settled legal rules, we still had disagreement. We're torn about these things.
Ezekiel Emanuel
#84. I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want to see your correspondence. I want to see your bank statements. But you will have no control over what I write. That's why I really believe in the unauthorized biography.
Kitty Kelley
#85. Well look at that. He's got the Rockwell genes. Maya's father gloated loudly over what Maya assumed was his third leg.
Melisa M. Hamling
#86. The Girauds' child was looking more and more like a problem.
Luke pressed his lips into a thin line. When she'd leaned in the stagecoach blazing with fervor over what was in the arcane books, it had taken all his willpower not to throw a bolt of magic to stop her heart.
Ann Gimpel
#87. You had me believing that I was crazy. Every time I broke down over what seemed like nothing, it was you.' Bade ran an anxious hand through his hair.
'Well, that's love isn't it?' Davina took his restless hand. 'Love is crazy and irrational, and anything less would be boring.
Moryah DeMott
#88. The government must give men and women without power a real say over what happens to them, and the means of engaging in a participative, invigorated and living democracy.
David Blunkett
#89. Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.
Lawrence Lessig
#90. Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into their body. It's not only illegal, it's immoral.
Mark Danner
#92. And her laugh was enough to make you want to kick over what you were doing and follow her down the street.
Donna Tartt
#93. Instead of asking, "Why is there war?" we might ask, "Why is there peace?" We can obsess not just over what we have been doing wrong but also over what we have been doing right. Because we have been doing something right, and it would be good to know what, exactly, it is.
Steven Pinker
#94. You know, in this business, you don't have any control over what the press says and how they portray things. And that's their prerogative. But I think anybody who looks at it objectively has trouble making the case that somehow this is a bad economy.
Dick Cheney
#95. If you ask most trainers who have ridden which pressure is greater - watching your horse or riding it - they will tell you it is harder watching it because you have no control over what happens.
Tony McCoy
#96. Intermediary liability enables the Chinese authorities to minimize the number of people they need to put in jail in order to stay in power and to maximize their control over what the Chinese people know and don't know.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#97. While Bradshaw applauded McNabb for playing hurt, he offered this dose of reality for the Eagles If he doesn't stay healthy, it's over, ... What are you going to do You roll the dice.
Terry Bradshaw
#98. I should have known someone like Caleb Drake stands over what he owns, teeth bared, not allowing anyone to touch it.
Tarryn Fisher
#99. For the record, I'm not an indecisive person, and I'm not a coward. I just have a very detailed imaginary life, and it sometimes takes precedence over what's actually happening around me.
Elizabeth Bard
#100. [Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was ... He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me.
Joe Haldeman
