Overtaking Quotes

• The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Happiness, Business

  "Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh".

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• Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.

  Carlos Castañeda

  Spiritual, Wall, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Si una vez y durante tanto tiempo vivimos en equilibrio con la naturaleza y entre nosotros, deberíamos poder hacerlo de nuevo. La catástrofe que nos asola tiene raíces profundas, pero nuestro anterior estado de anarquía natural se remonta mucho más atrás en nuestra historia común...

  John Zerzan

  Roots, Long, Balance

  "Take My Advice : Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two". Book by James L. Harmon, 2007.

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  El fracaso nunca me alcanzará si mi determinación de triunfar es lo suficientemente fuerte.

  Og Mandino

  Inspiración, Motivación, Éxito

  Og Mandino (2011). "El vendedor más grande del mundo", p.25, Bantam

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• Cuando el dolor te invada, busca en tu interior. Recoge los pedazos rotos y entrégaselos a Dios. Pídele que rehaga tu corazón. Diferente, esta vez. Más fuerte. Más hermoso. Así es como somos hechos y rehechos por el Creador.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Hermoso, Dolor, Corazón

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• Si una vez, y durante tanto tiempo, vivimos en equilibrio con la naturaleza y entre nosotros, deberíamos poder hacerlo de nuevo.

  John Zerzan

  Nature, Long, Balance

  "Take My Advice : Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two". Book edited by James L. Harmon, 2007.

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• La incertidumbre y la expectación son las alegrías de la vida. La seguridad es algo insípido.

  William Congreve

  Expectations, Joy, Risk

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.229

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• The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.

  John Edgar Park

  Reality, Light, Grace

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• Nunca he conocido más de quince minutos de ansiedad o miedo. Cada vez que siento que las emociones de miedo se apoderan de mí, simplemente cierro los ojos y doy gracias a Dios porque Él sigue en el trono reinando sobre todo y me consuelo en Su control sobre los asuntos de mi vida.

  Juan Wesley

  Eye, Anxiety, Thank God

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• Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.

  Confucius

  Amor, Inspiración, Divertido

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• La fotografía mantiene abiertos los instantes que la irrupción del tiempo cierra de inmediato; destruye el adelantamiento, la superposición, la metamorfosis del tiempo.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Metamorphosis, Photograph, Instant

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Galen A. Johnson, Michael B. Smith (1993). “The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting”, p.145, Northwestern University Press

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• When I notice a rear wheel overtaking me, I know I'm sitting in a Lotus.

  Graham Hill

  Lotuses, Sitting, Wheels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• El verdadero progreso social es siempre una ampliación del círculo de preocupación y protección. Es el respeto y la empatía superando la ceguera y la indiferencia. Es comprender que, en su justa medida, todos somos vecinos y compatriotas, y que cada uno de nosotros debe saber lo que es correcto, amable y justo, e ir y hacer lo mismo.

  Paul Ryan

  Real, Círculos, Empatía

  Fuente: www.foxnews.com

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• Creo que sería un gran reto trabajar en un juego militar protagonizado por una mujer. Desde que se permite la presencia de mujeres en el frente, corremos el riesgo de que la realidad se imponga a los juegos.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Militar, Carácter, Realidad

  Fuente: www.dualshockers.com

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• India may be overtaking China as the world's most polluted country. Even now, which country is worse depends on the day.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, India, World

  "India May Be Overtaking China As Most Polluted Country". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 23, 2016.

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• And what amazes me as I hit the motorway is not the fact that everyone loses someone, but that everyone loves someone. It seems like such a massive waste of energy -- and we all do it, all the people beetling along between the white lines, merging, converging, overtaking. We each love someone, even though they will die. And we keep loving them, even when they are not there to love any more. And there is no logic or use to any of this, that I can see.

  Anne Enright

  White, People, Energy

  Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.28, Random House

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• Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

  William Congreve

  Expectations, Joy, Wish

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.229

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• How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for what he thought, in spite of all her pride in spite of herself? She believed that she could have borne the sense of Almighty displeasure, because He knew all, and could read her penitence, and hear her cries for help in time to come. But Mr.Thornton-why did she tremble, and hide her face in the pillow? What strong feeling had overtaking her at last?

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Strong, Pride, Imagination

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1166, Delphi Classics

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• I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on the road, or in the field, at the theatre, the coffee-house, or at home, he had never overheard Americans conversing without the word DOLLAR being pronounced between them. Such unity of purpose ... can ... be found nowhere else, except... in an ant's nest.

  Frances Trollope

  Coffee, Home, America

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• I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express.

  Danae Elon

  Cameras, Jerusalem, Found

  "TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Danae Elon – ‘P.S. Jerusalem’". Interview with Freja Dam, www.indiewire.com. September 11, 2015.

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• In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.

  Gurú Gobind Singh

  Brother, Clouds, Dust

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• Muchos adelantamientos son aburridos. Si vas a pescar y pescas un pez cada diez minutos, es aburrido. Pero si estás allí todo el día y pescas un mega pez, vuelves con la historia de que pescaste un pez de este tamaño (indica un pez grande), en lugar de este tamaño (indica un pez pequeño)

  Eddie Irvine

  Fishing, Big Fish, Stories

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• If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.

  Adam DeVine

  Hate, Tv Shows, Comedian

  Adam Devine: "Cómo organizar una fiesta en casa". Entrevista con Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. 24 de octubre de 2013.

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• The great scientific achievements are research programmes which can be evaluated in terms of progressive and degenerative problemshifts; and scientific revolutions consist of one research programme superceding (overtaking in progress) another. This methodology offers a new rational reconstruction of science.

  Imre Lakatos

  Science, Achievement, Progress

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• If you travel to the continent you never have any problems overtaking, this is the only country I know where the outside lane is congested and the two inner lanes are empty. It drives me crazy. I'm ashamed that is so typically British.

  Martin Shaw

  Country, Crazy, Two

  Fuente: www.mirror.co.uk

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