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We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand. -- Anneli Rufus
Fame overcomes everything. -- Britt Ekland
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. -- Harry Golden
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe. -- John Milton
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. -- Ulrich Beck
It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry. -- John Singer Sargent
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. -- William Butler Yeats
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. -- Jimi Hendrix
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. -- John Keats
He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it. -- Leopold Von Ranke
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader. -- Nikki Giovanni
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. -- Aristotle
A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway. -- Christopher Reeve
I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build. -- Jeff Vandermeer
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. -- John D. Rockefeller
The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous. -- George Lois
It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil - I think most Americans, going about their daily lives, fool themselves into thinking that that's how our little world works, but it just isn't so. -- Lynn Flewelling
For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. -- Natalie Dormer
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. -- Andre Gide
In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself. -- Vincent Nichols
I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind. -- Stephen Dillane
My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith. -- Ted Dekker
Movement overcomes cold. -- Laozi
Wisdom overcomes fortune. -- Juvenal
Stillness overcomes heat. -- Laozi
Passion overcomes obstacles. -- Richard Brancatisano
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything. -- Petrarch
Light always overcomes darkness. -- Donald L. Hicks
Judeo-Christian conservatism overcomes natural selfishness. -- Jim DeMint
Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them. -- Benjamin Franklin
Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance. -- Mark Victor Hansen
The aspiration to attain goals overcomes death -- Sunday Adelaja
...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil. -- Martin Luther
One completely overcomes only what one assimilates. -- Andre Gide
A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes -- Anderson Silva
That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances. -- Laozi
He who conquers his wrath overcomes his greatest enemy. -- Publilius Syrus
Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature. -- Edgar Degas
Great faith overcomes laws of nature that govern physical world. -- Toba Beta
The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself. -- Marianne Moore
Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear. -- David Steindl-Rast
Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief. -- Vittorio Alfieri
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger. -- Aristotle
Love overcomes, love delights, those who love the Sacred Heart rejoice. -- Bernadette Soubirous
When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment. -- Abby Sunderland
He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong. -- Laozi
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. -- Hunter S. Thompson
We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19. -- Neal A. Maxwell
One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree. -- Gautama Buddha
The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures -- Democritus
A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it. -- Donald Miller
Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love. -- Adam Lambert
There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes. -- Seth Godin
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. -- Jimi Hendrix
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes. -- James Russell Lowell
In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker. -- Frederic Bastiat
It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury. -- Charlotte Bronte
Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large. -- Mas Oyama
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears. -- SaigyÅ
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. -- George Lois
Bigger than any obstacle is the strength that one posses It's a power that overcomes every obstacle -- Mario
All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself. -- Rumi
There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance. -- Leonard Jacobson
When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie. -- Avril Lavigne
I am the one whose love overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name. -- Jane Kenyon
A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him. -- Sigmund Freud
The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin. -- Pope Francis
I have never seen where hatred overcomes love. When you love, you overcome. Love is the most powerful weapon. -- T. B. Joshua
He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal. -- Rumi
Laziness is when your sleep overcomes your passion, not under the influence of drugs but under the control of excuses and procrastination! -- Israelmore Ayivor
When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own -- George Muller
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few. -- Laozi
The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it. -- Laozi
While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it. -- John Calvin
If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without. -- Richard Sibbes
The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross. -- E. Stanley Jones
Happiness & Sadness are two contemporary stages in life. A wise man overcomes sadness with his wisdom, and a foolish man faces it with tears. -- Deepak Chandra
The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every step. -- Chanakya
...light overcomes darkenss. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe, [darkness] can be defeated. -- Dave Barry
This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language. -- Rumi
As the alcohol overcomes my mind, I hear the glass bottle shatter on the floor. This seems appropriate since I have obviously lost my grip on everything. -- Suzanne Collins
We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce and steady truth, if you can continue to stand in it. -- Jay Woodman
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women. -- Democritus
Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it. -- John Calvin
Every strong conviction ends by taking possession of us; it overcomes and absorbs us, and tears us ruthlessly from everything else. Has the Cross so seized upon your life? -- L. E. Maxwell
Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them. -- John Updike
Even if your body isn't healthy, your soul overcomes that, it doesn't even care, it worships anyway, its joyful anyway. That's what God wants to give you in your life. -- Lacey Mosley
No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt. -- Toba Beta
It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death. -- Pope Benedict XVI
In or towards whomsoever the Holy Spirit puts forth His power, or acts his grace for their regeneration, he removes all obstacles, overcomes all oppositions, and infallibly produces the intended effect. -- John Owen
Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds. -- Dorothy Thompson
An adamant silence overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of an indefinable unknown, unconsciously desired. -- Carl Henegan
A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world. -- Elizabeth George
The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity. -- Anthony Kennedy
The sharing of goods and resources, from which authentic development proceeds, is not guaranteed by merely technical progress and relationships of utility, but by the potential of love that overcomes evil with good. -- Pope Benedict XVI
There is an awkward silence that overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of unknown but always desired. -- Carl Henegan
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

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