Overlying Quotes

#1. Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before
more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

Charles Dickens

#2. When the injured humerus is accompanied by a serious rupture of the overlying soft tissue the injury is regarded as fatal.

James Henry Breasted

#3. If you happen to be one of the people who has a split zygomaticus major muscle, where the lower part of it is tethered to the overlying skin, this will create a dimple in your cheek when you smile.

Alice Roberts

#4. I'm such a robot when it comes to work.

Jessica White

#5. I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#6. You're the prettiest thing I've ever seen." "You're looking at my backside," she hissed. "That's hardly flattering, I'll have you-" His

Alix West

#7. Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so that I might surpass them all. That was when I vowed to make history, not to be its victim.

Elizabeth Kostova

#8. The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.

Jorge Luis Borges

#9. She much preferred to be safely on the outside of life, watching, than deeply involved.

Katie Fforde

#10. My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.

Bernie Taupin

#11. I don't really understand what a dictator is, but on the other hand I sometimes, in a nice way, envy myself," he said. "I am the last and only dictator in Europe and indeed there are none anywhere else in the world.

Alexander Lukashenko

#12. I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

Deborah Eisenberg

#13. I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son.

Duke Ellington

#14. Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

Eubie Blake

#15. When you see your own desire to be happy, you can't avoid seeing the same desire in others.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

#16. The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others.

Tennessee Williams