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Tag Name "Overpower" (21)

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I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.
Amy Tan
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Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.
David Duchovny
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We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.
James Martineau
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Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.
John of Kronstadt
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We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still small voice.
L. Tom Perry
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Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food! Everything else - power, influence, strength - all those things can overpower what's important in life. But as long as you have food and shelter over your head, if the necessities are taken care of, what makes us happy on top of that is very simple.
Meryl Streep
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I'm looking for a perfume to overpower men - I'm sick of karate.
Phyllis Diller
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I want somebody athletic, outgoing, at least two inches taller than I am, rugged, very outdoorsy, a leader, someone who would overpower me.
Susan Ford
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
Tacitus
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A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
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If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.
Barbara Mertz
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Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request.
Dalai Lama
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We must not indulge our inclinations, as we do little children, till they grow weary of the thing they are unwilling to let go. We must not continue our sinful practices in hopes that the divine grace will one day overpower our spirits, and make us hate them for their own deformity.
Henry Scougal
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The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
John Dryden
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In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent.
Kano Jigoro
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America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by their own hands. To overpower its tender spirits makes America feel tough. Careers are generally short.
Martin Amis
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It's amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.
Neal Shusterman
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I told you I didn't want to fight with Charlie. Nobody said that you had to. I glowered at him. I can't help myself when he gets all bossy like that―my natural teenage instincts overpower me.
Stephenie Meyer
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Don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.
T.I.
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I don't wear a lot of color. In fact, I don't actually like color on myself. I love color but it's very challenging, it's very powerful, it can overpower you. I think if my eyes were closed and someone put a red jacket on me, I would be able to feel that it was red. I don't feel great in color.
Tom Ford