Get Over Quotes - Page 13

• A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

  Helen Rowland

  Inspirational, Beauty, Single

  A Guide to Men "Bachelors" (1922)

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• I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Morning, Moving

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.49, Penguin

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• The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, People, Selfishness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.14

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• I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to... it's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly.

  Werner Herzog

  Doors, Trying, Guests

  "Cave of Forgotten Dreams (3D) - Werner Herzog interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?

  Maya Angelou

  War, Mean, Long

  Source: blues.gr

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• I think that one of the hardest things in the world to be is a black male. I mean everyone hates your guts. White men are afraid of you. White women are afraid of you. The cops hate you. The government wants you dead. Your own people want to shoot you for what you got. You just can't get over it. And even if you are able to get over it you're forced to do it on the white guy's terms.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Mean, Men

  Source: www.theroc.org

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• People will envy you to the extent that you start out with a group of people and you rise up the organization faster than them. Get over what your peers are thinking about you because your peers are also your competitors.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Thinking About You, Organization, People

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• Stand-up is not something that you're good at right away. You have to do it a ton. But, I think I got to shave a year off because I didn't have to get over stage fright.

  Amy Schumer

  Thinking, Years, Stage

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

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• If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

  Pierre Omidyar

  People, Stranger, Distrust

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• do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.

  Ann Bridge

  Good Life, Ideas, Enemy

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.18, A&C Black

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• Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.

  Frank Pittman

  Family, Children, Ideas

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• Don't cry, you crybaby! When you think things are hard, that's the time you are maturing as a person. If you get over the darkness, a wonderful new day will come. The bright morning will be filled with light and the birds will be singing . There'll be white roses with a lovely fragrance.

  Aya Kito

  Morning, Thinking, White

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• I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Iraq, Trying, Afghanistan

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• All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

  Ernie Pyle

  War, Soldier, Lines

  Ernie Pyle (2004). “Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press

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• If you are sitting there waiting for someone to tell you how wonderful you are, you'll never get anything done. Women need to get over being women. I'm tired of that socialization of women; that we are always supposed to be sitting around pleasing somebody.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Tired, Waiting, Needs

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• When you get into competition and get under pressure, and get over that ball and are looking at it, and know you have to hit it, it is having that system to depend on to get that ball to where you want it to be.

  Arnold Palmer

  Competition, Balls, Want

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• I was horrified of the dark. I realized that the only way I could get over that fear was by scaring other people, so I became obsessed with ghost stories, drawing monsters, watching monster movies, sneaking into horror movies, and it's just been the love of my life forever.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Dark, Drawing, Ghost Stories

  "Fantasia 2014: A Gothic Interview With Matthew Gray Gubler". Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.yellmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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• I don't want to paint myself as some villain - I was never a bad guy doing horrible things, but I got too caught up in wanting a very specific thing to happen to the band. Ultimately, I had to find the ability in myself to get over that and stop being so stringent and learn to laugh a little bit more.

  Andy Biersack

  Laughing, Guy, Band

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• Survival of the fittest is over. Get over it. We need survival of the wisest.

  Deepak Chopra

  Survival, Needs, Over It

  "How A Video Game Could Make You A Better Man". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. November 22, 2011.

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• A synopsis of every story we do: someone gets over their own stupid ass.

  Kieron Gillen

  Stupid, Stories, Ass

  "The Return of the Ultimate Music-Obsessive Comic, Phonogram". Interview with Tom Ewing, pitchfork.com. August 12, 2015.

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• Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.

  Ice T

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You don’t need help to write a song. You just need to get over this experience that bummed you out so bad. The relationship you were in is over, it was over a long time ago, and you need to move on.

  Stevie Nicks

  Song, Moving, Writing

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• I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.

  Trevor Donovan

  School, Class, Design

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• The other day, I saw a blog post where a woman wrote about why she was unfollowing me and that made me feel incredibly self-conscious and embarrassed about my tweets. I also feel more exposed now that I've become a more visible writer but then I try to get over all that and just use Twitter the way I want.

  Roxane Gay

  Self, Trying, Use

  "What Would Twitter Do?" with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 14, 2014.

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• I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Coffee, Eating, Restaurants

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