Take Over Quotes

#1. Disappointments are like weeds in the garden. You can let them grow and take over your life, or you can rout them out and let the flowers sprout.

Wanda E. Brunstetter

#2. A dominant wolf's desire to protect was a strong instinct--Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inch, and he'd take over the world--my life, if I let him." ~Mercy

Patricia Briggs

#3. It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world.

Julia Quinn

#4. One more thing: Linda, can you get to Canterbury and take over my Chaucerian Society? They're at Dovecote Hostelry in the old city. We're visiting all the scenes of the great murders. Tomorrow they want to see where Becket was killed. They're a bloodthirsty lot, it seems.

Cinda Williams Chima

#5. Have you been reading those books that clueless illiterate Duja in charge of the lending library lets you borrow?' 'No, Ma.' 'Then what put you in mind of devils possessing nuns to take over the church?

Renita D'Silva

#6. I would have loved to have been in 'Bottle Rocket' to take over Owen Wilson's character Dignan, because he's just awesome and amazing. I would have loved to have been in 'The Darjeeling Limited' maybe. I think that would have been a good one to be in.

Tony Revolori

#7. I'm just happy that I'll have someone to give all my shoes to! I'll have someone to take over everything. It's funny because I'm having a lot of fun buying clothes for my daughter. She already has shoes for when she's a size eight. She's covered for a while.

Kristin Cavallari

#8. God, help me ... did you send her to me? Because it felt like you did. It felt like you put her on this earth to find me and take over my very being with her goodness. I closed my eyes and hoped so.

Shelly Crane

#9. I? KILL? said Death, obviously offended. CERTAINLY NOT. PEOPLE GET KILLED, BUT THAT'S THEIR BUSINESS. I JUST TAKE OVER FROM THEN ON. AFTER ALL, IT'D BE A BLOODY STUPID WORLD IF PEOPLE GOT KILLED WITHOUT DYING, WOULDN'T IT?

Terry Pratchett

#10. If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.

Yasmin Mogahed

#11. I'd like to see Manhattan underwater. I'd like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody's buying them. I'm excited about that. Money and desire - all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.

Hayao Miyazaki

#12. I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.

Andrew Greeley

#13. Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.

Laozi

#14. Life did not take over the world by combat,
but by networking.

Lynn Margulis

#15. The fact that you are possessed by a demon does not mean you must become evil. Being evil is a choice, just as being good is a choice. If you let the demon take over, it's because you choose to.

James Swain

#16. My attitude is born out of necessity. I've made mistakes. I've made decisions I regretted. I know what it's like to live with regret. I live with it everyday. But if I let it take over, I'd never get out of bed in the morning.

Maya Banks

#17. Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.

Kim Harrison

#18. My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies.

George A. Romero

#19. Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.

Green Day

#20. Word is sort of spreading by itself, largely among young people. And if word gets out that young people can actually come out to the polls and, in fact, take over this election in order to liberate themselves from life-long debts, we could actually win.

Jill Stein

#21. I prepare to the point where instinct take over ...

Stephen Curry

#22. It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.

William Bernbach

#23. Only one who takes over his own life history can see in it the realization of his self. Responsibility to take over one's own biography means to get clear about who one wants to be.

Jurgen Habermas

#24. Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.

Rodman Philbrick

#25. Instagram, as well as all other social media platforms, is meant to complement your main marketing efforts for your business, not take over them.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#26. Yeah, well, what are you going to teach me next ... how to take over the world?" I asked sarcastically.
"Good idea!" Sampson exclaimed a little too enthusiastically.
"No, bad idea!" I stressed.
"See? You are learning," Sampson said.

Jennifer Priester

#27. No. I remember. So long as I don't think about it too much, my hands and feet take over; some memory locked into muscle that my brain has nothing to do with.
I know how to drive. And I'm better at it than he is.

Teri Terry

#28. Bad money drives out good.' That means poor performance will take over if good performance isn't recognized.

Tom Clancy

#29. It's amazing how you can live without somebody your entire life and then you meet them, let them in, let them take over your every thought, and then the moment they're gone, you feel like you're fucking dying.

Claire Contreras

#30. You have to avoid thinking of what upsets you. If not, it will take over your life.

Alex Flinn

#31. My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That's what friends do.

Matthew McConaughey

#32. As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

Stanley Tucci

#33. The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.

Rollo May

#34. In the very existence of this book we have a most concrete example of the manner in which at least one of these marvellous creatures [cats], acquiring both an editor and a publisher, has advanced the eventual complete feline take-over of the human race.

Paul Gallico

#35. Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human operators in control of a supposedly infallible system, complacency and overconfidence can take over, and caution may be thrown to the wind.

Henry Petroski

#36. If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

E. Stanley Jones

#37. But when you take over a ship with a bomb threat, you really go first-class.

Dave Barry

#38. If we allow the negative to take over, it will quickly consume us to the point we will lose control.

Karli Rush

#39. It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.

David Soul

#40. I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing ... Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?

Utah Phillips

#41. It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.

Britta Phillips

#42. As distasteful as it may seem when you're busy plotting to take over the world, it's equally important to stay on top of your bills.

Sophia Amoruso

#43. The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.

Peter Sarsgaard

#44. I think we've bounced back and really been resilient. Even after a bad period, we take over and we seem like we're on a mission. That comes with leadership and experience and a lot of things. A lot of it is mental toughness and resiliency in the situation you're at, just trusting in your teammates.

Mike Fisher

#45. God doesn't come to sit on the porch and sip lemonade. He comes to take over.

Ayana Mathis

#46. The simple fact was, I was scared, because I knew if I let myself love you, I would love you with all of myself. I would love you in that way that would take over my whole soul,

Maisey Yates

#47. If I look at the performance of another friend Sting, whenever I hear him take over a stage and share his art with millions, it's very inspiring to me. So I have a lot in my life, a lot of friends who inspire me and I'm sure it goes the other way around, or so that I inspire them.

Philippe Petit

#48. I wondered how all those people in the states who tried to sound tough, saying that the u.s. should go in here, bomb there, take over this, attack that, would feel if they knew that they were indirectly responsible for babies being burned to death.

Assata Shakur

#49. At heart, science is the quest for awesome - the literal awe that you feel when you understand something profound for the first time. It's a feeling we are all born with, although it often gets lost as we grow up and more mundane concerns take over our lives.

Sean Carroll

#50. When you're in film and you're in close, charisma in the eyes and confidence can take over. But when someone's sitting twenty rows back, you need the whole body. You need to be encompassed by an actor.

Alison Pill

#51. There are thousands of wines
that can take over our minds.
Don't think all ecstasies
are the same!
Jesus was lost in his love for God.
His donkey was drunk with barley.

Rumi

#52. I could take over as host of The Daily Show for Jon Stewart and make that thing actually watchable.

Seth Rollins

#53. I still have a tendency to sit back and wait out the bad things that try and take over my life.

Dean Bakopoulos

#54. Donald Trump is not a Republican. Donald Trump is not a conservative. Donald Trump is trying to pull off the biggest scam in American political history, basically a con job, where he's trying to take over the Republican Party by telling people he's someone who he is not.

Marco Rubio

#55. My heart swelled until I felt as if it might take over my entire being. I had landed in heaven. This was heaven.

Julianne Donaldson

#56. One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

Erwin Chargaff

#57. Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the U.N.'s going to take over'? Well, they're beginning to have a case.

Dick Morris

#58. My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.

Kevyn Aucoin

#59. Drake. He liked dangerous pies."
"Why did he join you?"
"Who would eat pie that could take over your life? Why risk it?"
"Focus. Why did he join you?"
"Say no to death pies. Another good motto. I'm getting a headache." p. 432

Brandon Mull

#60. Accountability in public office is but one manifestation of this cultural inheritance, and we should not be surprised that it is the first thing to disappear when the utopians and the planners take over.

Roger Scruton

#61. A lot of people seem nice when you first meet them. Then later you find out that they are evil villains who plan to take over the world.

Dan Gutman

#62. Like a bud is born with the knowing that it will flower when the season comes, like a bird is born with the principles of flight that take over when it spreads its wings to fly, the human body-mind-soul, is born with the capacity to heal itself, long before it is taught ... to forget.

Sanjiv Ranjan

#63. There's something about the openness of the American people. Yes, we have our faults, but deep down, there's a goodness. America doesn't want to take over the world; in many ways, we don't want to be bothered by the rest of the world.

Jerry Springer

#64. Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over.

John Stossel

#65. Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#66. If we lose our significance (character) we fall in ruin. The exploiters take over and sell freedom from fear, from guilt, from want. They excuse all corrupt actions. Collective status degenerates the human spirit.

Moxie Will

#67. I always just wanted to have enough to carry on. I never had ambitions to take over the world or be a global enterprise. But I wanted to have a strong business in order to do the main objective.

Rei Kawakubo

#68. My ideas for the future? To take over the world.

Louis Tomlinson

#69. The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#70. Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

Hayao Miyazaki

#71. My hustle is just too crazy. I'm trying to take over the world!

Spencer Pratt

#72. What is a poem, if not a toy mouse viewed from an angle that makes it appear to take over the world? Lee

Nell Zink

#73. Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.

Aberjhani

#74. Kari laughed when she heard Meryn. "Now I that have minions and mercenaries, I can take over the world."
Aiden looked down at his mate, a terrified look on his face.

Alanea Alder

#75. He knew for a fact that one of the girls had managed to take over the plenary session of the national model UN and push through a motion sanctioning the use of nuclear weapons to protect an endangered species of sea turtle. This while representing Lesotho.

Lev Grossman

#76. It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.

John Negroponte

#77. I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it's a great honour.

Alan Ball

#78. Fine, but if and when the zombies team up with the mummies to take over the world, you can't live in my underground bunker.

Emily Cale

#79. Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being.

Eckhart Tolle

#80. You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

Paul Kantner

#81. But from the moment George Bush decided to overthrow Saddam, the people who were going to benefit here were the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population. So if you were ever going to have an election, then the Shia would take over.

Patrick Cockburn

#82. I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

Pete Cashmore

#83. It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Harold S. Geneen

#84. Turtles are not the innocent, harmless creatures everyone thinks they are. Mark my words. They're secretly planning to take over the world. And then where will we be?

Darynda Jones

#85. In the end, it's a good investment for America to be involved in helping people get democratic governance - not to take over their country - but to help people be free. And that is an investment that will pay off in the future.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

#86. If left together for too long, the two of them might actually take over the civilized world, through sheer application of snide remarks.

Gail Carriger

#87. I ain't going to jail no more. The only
way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over.
What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!

Stokely Carmichael

#88. The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.

James Surowiecki

#89. If you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over

Gordon Attard

#90. You got one choice, you either suck me or I eat you. After that, I take over.

Kristen Ashley

#91. The human body is amazing, she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

Dan Brown

#92. Sometimes my natural instincts take over and I just go overboard.

Bill Goldberg

#93. I've grown over the years and I know how to adapt to situations, where I can go into a situation where there's a crowd of people and just take over. But pretty much I'm off to myself. And I'm totally committed to the game of football. That's why I've had so much success.

Jerry Rice

#94. The owners of labor, on the other hand, are being taught, by the most powerful and well-publicized examples, that the highest rewards are not for production, but for the employment of organized power to take over a share of what others produce.

Louis O. Kelso

#95. Do not let the forces of evil take over to make this a Christian America.

Howard Metzenbaum

#96. I think the first villain that I ever played was on 'Stargate'. I was this superior being that would take over a human host and believe that he was the most superior being in the universe.

Kevin Durand

#97. Just stop asking," she burst out. "Just take. Please ... just take over. I can't ... give. You just have to take what you want." Tyler stared down at

Joey W. Hill

#98. You can never recover from losing a person you love, but you can find a way to let it be part of your life rather than letting it take over every part of you

Darien Gee

#99. Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully.

Judith Schaechter

#100. My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with Bob Crosby's band - but he had to give up show business when his father died. He had to come back to Montgomery and take over the furniture store.

Toni Tennille