Overruling Quotes

#1. It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

Franklin Pierce

#2. This is a quote from C. S. Lewis. It helped me a lot when I was trying to decide God's will fro me when my emotions were overruling my logic. Feelings come adn go, and when they come, a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular spiritual diet.

Robin Jones Gunn

#3. And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories.

Jules Verne

#5. The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.

Henry Eyring

#6. As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.

Deborah Sampson

#7. I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.

Daniel Defoe

#8. The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors--and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that inevitably entailed--they risked losing everything.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#9. We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

Judd Apatow

#10. Mother and daughter got on very well indeed, with a deep affection founded on almost complete misunderstanding.

Mary Stewart

#11. The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around me.

Nick McDonell

#12. The correct way to play chess is to develop each and every piece (chess is a team game!), get your King safely castled, and only then begin more aggressive maneuvers.

Jeremy Silman

#13. When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Lillian Smith

#14. I was a fan of "The Daily Show" I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression.

Aasif Mandvi

#15. One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#16. What I really mean is that actors do the interview process because they have to. It's a good bargain: If I can do this part then I'll sell it. I just wish it wasn't me who had to do it because it feels very unnatural.

Kristen Stewart

#17. I was torn apart. But you, my knight, you found all the pieces and put me back together.

Juliette Cross

#18. When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in the meantime, you should keep quiet, or at least speak only when what you say will advance the learning process.

Roberto Bolano

#19. A man is what he thinks about all day long

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would.

John Sentamu

#21. I believe businesses don't grow or develop in terms of a blueprint. There is a huge element of opportunism involved.

Christoffel Wiese