Overawed Quotes

#1. A friend is someone to whom you can tell all your secrets, someone whom you can trust without reservation, a person who is not overawed when you are at your best, and is not turned away when you are at your worst.

Steven J. Carroll

#2. Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

Benjamin Spock

#3. There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Thou wouldst not enslave man by a miracle, and didst crave faith given freely, not based on miracle. Thou didst crave for free love and not the base raptures of the slave before the might that has overawed him for ever.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. He was overawed by her open, fearless affection. Was this why people liked friendship so much?

Nina George

#6. I decided that if I want to write about a female hero in the 1920s, I'm going to have to give her all the advantages I can because she has serious disadvantages in being a woman. I wasn't going to have her cowed or overawed by class, so she had to be titled.

Kerry Greenwood

#7. Suggesting that you do yoga was my subtle way of telling you to go to hell.

Jennifer Echols

#8. The presence or absence of a creative super-intelligence is unequivocally a scientific question, even if it is not in practice - or not yet - a decided one. So also is the truth or falsehood of every one of the miracle stories that religions rely upon to impress multitudes of the faithful.

Richard Dawkins

#9. You can't be happy by doing something groovy.

Bob Dylan

#10. BP today finally managed to almost completely stop the flow of information.

Bill Maher

#11. The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.

Aristotle.

#12. Unpopular because he was stupid and fat and mean, and smelled like bacon no matter how much he washed.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath.

Sarah Vowell

#14. If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.

Sri Chinmoy

#15. I don't get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.

Robert De Niro

#16. I don't know why but they you said it I started believing it.

Salman Naveed