Overtaken By Events Quotes

#1. By the eighteenth century many were showing all the negative conservatism of a vested interest overtaken by events: dogged devotion to old techniques, suspicion of innovation, resentment of competition and xenophobia.

Timothy C.W. Blanning

#2. As if he'd guessed her thoughts, Micah said, "I've risked everything for you." His eyes spoke more than he said aloud.

Cinda Williams Chima

#3. By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.

Joe Torre

#4. I think we're living in a time when size is not a strategic advantage, necessarily.

Michael Hyatt

#5. The fact is, that among his hunters at least, the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much of him; but when you come to sit down before a meat-pie nearly one hundred feet long, it takes away your appetite.

Herman Melville

#6. Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#7. This is about doing something difficult and not stopping when it becomes not just difficult, but cold and difficult ... or cold and wet and difficult ... or cold and wet and dark and difficult.

Suzy Favor Hamilton

#8. Life unravels as it's lived. It can't be woven back together.

Allan Wolf

#9. I always write the same way. I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen on my bed. And then I go and type it up afterwards. I've always done that. Those things become habitual.

Woody Allen

#10. You have such a huge career ... behind you.

Jeff Ross

#11. Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the book I'm writing at the moment.

Nelson DeMille

#12. Don't give up the ship!

James Lawrence

#13. North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.

Dave Sim

#14. No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.

Katherine Cecil Thurston

#15. Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

Rollo May

#16. What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.

Alber Elbaz