Surmounts Quotes

#1. Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.

Albert Schweitzer

#2. If many worlds would altogether try,
By all their sins the wrath of God to get,
This sin of yours surmounts them all as far
As doth the sun another little star.

Aemilia Lanyer

#3. We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#4. All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is Mills & Boon written by a genius.

P.D. James

#5. This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.'

Janet Morris

#6. One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

Francois Rabelais

#7. Fight with realistic
hope, not to destroy
all the world's wrong,
but to renew its good.

Elizabeth Wein

#8. No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.

Brad Warner

#9. The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

Milan Kundera

#10. The presidency is a serious job that requires sound judgment and good ideas, and there's no doubt in my mind that Jeb Bush has the experience and the character to be a great president.

George W. Bush

#11. He broke his heart into a million pieces before it could gather itself back and fall in love with her yet again.

Such was her charisma.

Abhishek Krishnan

#12. I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do - play it right and with respect.

Ryne Sandberg

#13. Be that self that one is

Soren Kierkegaard

#14. Our nation must engage with the rest of the world. But to be successful, we must listen. Our interaction with the world must be a conversation, not a monologue ... these exchanges are a strategic pillar of our nation's public diplomacy.

Dina Powell

#15. Sometimes a place to work, or a place to relax--even if only for an hour--is all you need. That, and good friends. Without those things, the city will break you into a million tiny pieces. But what in the world could be harder to find?

Aaron Cometbus

#16. Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away, but ebooks won't go away, either.

David Morrell

#17. With the first kiss his mouth will taste of wormwood.

Poppy Z. Brite

#18. Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

Saint Augustine

#19. My wife comes most of the times I teach and stands on the front row to help me. She's been wonderfully supportive.

Clayton M Christensen