Overthrows Quotes

#1. Let the giggles fill your mouth because nothing tastes as sweet as laughter.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#2. Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

Sun Tzu

#3. Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows.

Confucius

#4. Marine. Say the word to any American, and you can count on a strong reaction.

Tom Clancy

#5. The future is no place to place your better days

Dave Matthews Band

#6. If the subject's easy we may all be wise;
What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

Ovid

#7. I would love to be the African leader that steps down, that overthrows this idea of a Big Man ruler. I don't want to stay in office forever.

Meles Zenawi

#8. The lowest form of war is To attack Cities. Siege warfare Is a last resort ... The Skillful Strategist Defeats the enemy Without doing battle, Captures the city Without laying siege, Overthrows the enemy state Without protracted war.34

Henry Kissinger

#9. Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

N. T. Wright

#10. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

Kenneth Kaunda

#11. When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

Seneca The Younger

#12. I have always been so interested in film as a medium.

Christoph Waltz

#13. Tomorrow is Election Day. It's what they call the midterm elections, and you can cut the indifference with a knife. It's the day Americans leave work early and pretend to vote.

David Letterman

#14. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife ...
O, I am fortune's fool! ...
Then I defy you, stars.

William Shakespeare

#15. Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.

Jack Schwartz

#16. God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.

Martin Buber

#17. Men suck," Bailey said, nodding supportively then frowning at Vaughn. "Why do you suck so much? Too much ball toxins?"
"Sounds about right," he muttered, rolling another strike. "Girls get PMS. Guys get ball toxins. Common knowledge.

Bijou Hunter

#18. A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Mao Tse-tung

#19. The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers.

Neal Stephenson

#20. There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.

Philip Sidney