Overmastering Quotes

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

#2. We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

H. H. Asquith

#3. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Orison Swett Marden

#4. Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

Sonya Levien

#6. This, then, is the doctrine of the resurrection. We do not believe
at least I do not
that law has been rudely violated in one extraordinary and unparalleled episode. We believe that a universal law of life, overmastering death, and always superior to it, has had once a visible witness.

Charles Spurgeon

#7. No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne of the universe.

Adrian Rogers

#8. The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

Plutarch

#9. I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

Eminem

#10. Initiate. Complete.

Susan Dennard

#11. I don't want to watch 'Newsnight.' I just don't understand those politicians who genuinely want to watch it for pleasure.

George Osborne

#12. Hear that, Eustace? He wishes we were staying a good long time."
"I expect it will seem a good long time," said Eustace, philosophically.

P.G. Wodehouse

#13. Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Malcolm Forbes Jr.

#14. I feel the animal within me emerging, Princess. It's raw and uncontained, but it wants to please you. If we wait ... " His chin dropped, his voice too. "I cannot hurt you, do you understand?

Laura Wright

#15. A balanced tone on Europe will free us to address in depth the domestic economic and social agenda which we neglected throughout the last Parliament.

Kenneth Clarke

#16. Who you truly are as a person is best revealed by who you are during times of conflict and crisis.

Karen Salmansohn

#17. Sporting achievements bestow a sense of unification on the cultures and societies in which they take place and create an outpouring of nationalism and pride.

Richard Attias

#18. The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.

Tom Platz

#19. The number of realists who are betting that both the 'economy gets healthy soon' and this government gets spending under control is a tiny group, indeed.

Bob Beauprez

#20. When friends meet, hearts warm.

John Ray