Overmastered Quotes

#1. We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#2. Is there something in women that makes us long to be humbled? Or is it something in human beings, that when we are overmastered, we rejoice in our subjection? That would explain a lot of history.

Orson Scott Card

#3. Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a piece of valiant dust?

William Shakespeare

#4. But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.

Haruki Murakami

#5. What makes my jaw drop is that people today should base their lives on such an appalling role model as Yahweh - and, even worse, that they should bossily try to force the same evil monster (whether fact or fiction) on the rest of us.

Richard Dawkins

#6. People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#7. Maybe I should lie down on a table in the workroom and wait to see if he welds something to me." "I think that's the way most great love stories begin.

Leigh Bardugo

#8. We know of officers who develop inappropriate relationships with victims of domestic abuse. They have ignored their professional duty and their moral responsibility.

Theresa May

#9. I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.

William H. Wharton

#10. Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

Esther Dyson

#11. I walked home past the glass whiskers of the houses, reflecting the downward rushing waterfalls of night.

Richard Brautigan