Quotes About Overshadowing

#1. We were both victims to the same overshadowing evil - she, as mistress, I, as slave.

Frederick Douglass

#2. Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

Constance Baker Motley

#3. The turn of the century was the age of the banker, so much so that the leading bankers of the day had become legendary figures in the public imagination-vast, overshadowing behemoths whose colossal power seemed to reach everywhere.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#4. The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.

A.B. Simpson

#5. If I was to write a novel about the paranormal, I think I would want to use a ghostwriter for greater impact.

Michael Kroft

#6. I say us - obviously I don't vote as I believe democracy is a pointless spectacle where we choose between two indistinguishable political parties, neither of whom represent the people but the interest of powerful business elites that run the world.

Russell Brand

#7. (Dad) could not abide us feeling sorry for ourselves. Life was far too good for us to whine about small things. It was selfish, and on top of that, it was boring.

Jean Kennedy Smith

#8. Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept.

Abraham Lincoln

#9. Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

Auguste Comte

#10. We want autonomy for ourselves and safety for those we love. That remains the main problem and paradox for the frail. Many of the things that we want for those we care about are things that we would adamantly oppose for ourselves because they would infringe upon our sense of self.

Atul Gawande

#11. Well isn't that one thing you're all the more wise for? Age has taught
you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody
knows what's going on

Cecelia Ahern

#12. An object must be desirable for envy to work as a motivating force.

Chris Nodder

#13. I'd watched a lot of David Letterman for sure. As far as who I watched as a late-show host, it was definitely Letterman.

Chad VanGaalen

#14. Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.

Anthony Burgess