Overruled Quotes

#1. It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate.

Christopher Marlowe

#2. We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Abraham Lincoln

#3. He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and acquiesce when his opinion is freely overruled, will attain his object in the end.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common sense and she had become drunk on ovarian wine, the most potent, sanity- destroying substance in the universe.

Linda Howard

#5. Today's market action is driven by the slower GDP growth rate. Despite oil being higher, I think the GDP kind of overruled everything and just makes the market feel better about what the Fed is going to do, or rather not do.

L'Wren Scott

#6. To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions, and Michel duly paid for his clairvoyance.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#7. What seems to tend to the church's ruin is often overruled to the ruin of the church's enemies, whose pride and malice are fed by Providence, that they may be ripened for destruction.

Matthew Henry

#8. She looked at ways to quantify life. Analytic in nature, her head almost always overruled her heart. Love it? Hate it? She wanted to KNOW it.

Gregg Olsen

#9. Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up.

Helen Thomas

#10. I talked late, swam late, did not learn to ride a bike until college - and might never have walked or learned to drive a car if my parents hadn't overruled my lack of motivation and virtually forced me to embrace both forms of transportation. I suspect I was happy to sit in a corner with a book.

Julia Glass

#11. When I was 10, I had a paper route. One year, I delivered my papers through a hurricane. My mother was against the idea, but my dad, who was a sergeant in the Marine Corps, overruled her. I was determined to deliver my papers.

Tim Finchem

#12. But in the end self-confidence mostly comes from a gut-level realization that nobody has ever died from making a wrong business decision, or taking inappropriate action, or being overruled. And everyone in your operation should be made to understand this.

Andrew S. Grove

#13. Hamilton, aware the war was winding down and that this was likely his last shot at glory, went over Lafayette's head and appealed to Washington, who overruled Lafayette and allowed Hamilton to lead.

Sarah Vowell

#14. Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.

Paul Feyerabend

#15. The smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.

Anthony De Jasay

#16. Do not delegate an assignment and then attempt to manage it yourself - you will make an enemy of the overruled subordinate.

Wess Roberts

#17. While I sign off on trades or free agents, I've rarely overruled my basketball people's decisions. But I'm not shy about steering the discussion or pushing deeper if something doesn't make sense to me.

Paul Allen

#18. The obligation of the judge in the circuit is to follow the previous decisions in the circuit unless those decisions are overruled by an en bloc panel of the court.

Merrick Garland

#19. Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. My need to be around Abby Abernathy overruled any rational thought. It had always been that way, and I imagined it always would.

Jamie McGuire

#21. We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll and float it out in the sun inside plastic mebranes. We will build Scarsdale on Mount Everest.

Lewis Thomas

#22. This country is always changing. But my point about the Supreme Court is the Supreme Court didn't wait for the country to change. Five unelected lawyers overruled 320 million Americans.

Ted Cruz

#23. A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is stable. It is a rock.

John C. Calhoun

#24. What a terrible thing, when what's right is overruled by what's popular,

Edward W. Robertson

#25. In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.'

Anne Boleyn

#26. I had little choice but to resign my job at the hospital, pack my bags and move back to Bloody Mary,

Liliana Hart

#27. it's always been you.

Winna Efendi

#28. To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

Henry Drummond

#29. Creativity is a high level of thinking and intelligence.

Pearl Zhu

#30. If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

Mark Donohue

#31. I am also about trusting maggot instincts. If I get played or taken advantage of? So be it. That's a life lesson. I would rather have believed in someone and get hurt than live life with distrust. I always go into a relationship with trust.

Masi Oka

#32. In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical facts.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#33. Life has pounded me down and thrashed me around, time and time again. But I still love life, just as the earth still loves the rain.

Suzy Kassem

#34. And this gay thing. It feels so big. It's almost insurmountable. I don't know how to tell them something like this and still come out of it feeling like Simon. Because if Leah and Nick don't recognize me, I don't even recognize myself anymore.

Becky Albertalli

#35. Now, I know I just couldn't wait to see you." He watched Logan's thick lashes sweep against his cheeks as he blinked, and then he leaned over to place a kiss by his ear. "I'm so glad you kept coming back. Did I ever tell you that?

Ella Frank

#36. The highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist disconnected, disinterested and continuing to make product and not developing any sort of 'normal life.'

Rob Lowe

#37. Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.

Alexander Mackendrick

#38. Nova studied his face like a cat on a mouse hole, waiting for the slightest movement to give way and the unseen to be revealed. But Chael's face was like a rock, void of movement, void of clues.

Brittney Joy

#39. They start again as children - all together. It is what the Composer was designed to prevent.

Greg Bear

#40. All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'.

Willis Harman

#41. Questions spun through Nova's head, creating a tornado of fear with a sucking wind that grew and then funneled out her mouth. She could hear herself screaming, but the shriek sounded like it was coming from someone else.

Brittney Joy