Hang Over Quotes

• Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Civilization, Poverty, Danger

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

  Christopher Pike

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I think the cloud of suspicion has been hanging over baseball for a while. I think there has been some positive things that have come out of that. There has been a drug test policy that was been implemented that got the blessings of both the Players Association and MLB. They are trying to maintain the integrity of this sport and trying to get it back, but that cloud I think will hang over a little longer.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Sports, Baseball, Integrity

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. February 16, 2007.

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• The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.

  Randy Johnson

  Clouds, Used

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• I don't believe there's any cloud that hangs over me. I think there's nothing but sunshine hanging over me.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Believe, Sunshine, Thinking

  "Roundtable: Maintaining Diversity Amid Job Cuts". Interview with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. December 10, 2008.

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• Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Clouds, World

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.125

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• I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to have it done in needlepoint and mounted in a suitable frame to hang over Little John's bed. It says, The rewards of golf - and of life, too, I expect - are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules." I never heard from Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I can only conclude that the letter went astray.

  Alistair Cooke

  Senior, Golf, Games

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• Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.

  Philip Larkin

  Iceland, Ifs

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• There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.

  Margaret Craven

  Littles, Towns, Strange

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• I have little hesitation in saying that as a result a sickly pall now hangs over the big bang theory. As I have mentioned earlier, when a pattern of facts becomes set against a theory, experience shows that it rarely recovers.

  Fred Hoyle

  Bangs, Patterns, Littles

  "The Intelligent Universe". Book by Fred Hoyle (Page 186), 1983.

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• I have actually programmed a fair bit in Perl, like I have C++ code published with my name on it. Other things I have tried and have no intention to do again if I can at all avoid it include smoking, getting drunk enough to puke and waste the whole next day with hang-over, breaking a leg in a violent car crash, getting mugged in New York City, or travel with Aeroflot.

  Erik Naggum

  New York, Cities, Names

  Re: How is perl braindamaged? (was Re: Is LISP dying?) (Usenet article), groups.google.com. July 28, 1999.

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• Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.

  Irena Sendler

  Holocaust, Half, World

  Irena Sendler's letter to the Polish Senate (2007), as quoted in "Irena Sendler: An Unsung Heroine" by Louis Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk. 2007.

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• Assuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing the great rock that hangs over him in the air and frozen with vain terror. Rather, it is in this life that fear of the gods oppresses mortals without cause, and the rock they fear is any that chance may bring.

  Lucretius

  Rocks, Air, Atheism

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• Stand here by my side and turn, I pray,
  On the lake below thy gentle eyes;
  The clouds hang over it, heavy and gray,
  And dark and silent the water lies;
  And out of that frozen mist the snow
  In wavering flakes begins to flow;
  Flake after flake,
  They sink in the dark and silent lake.

  William C. Bryant

  Lying, Eye, Dark

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• This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe they can change the world for the better. It seems implausible, yet time and again history has proven it true. Virtually every major shift in cultural history can trace its origins to the work of a small group, often gathered around an innovative thinker or body of thought.

  Alan AtKisson

  Believe, People, Optimism

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• The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.

  Edgar Morin

  Destiny, Men, Life And Death

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• The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Education, Truth, Mean

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• Crowds of bees are giddy with clover
  Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet,
  Crowds of larks at their matins hang over,
  Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

  Jean Ingelow

  Sweet, Feet, Bees

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.1

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• For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.

  Karl Marlantes

  War, Divorce, Dark

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.193, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over.

  Mary Lasswell

  Dimes, Legs, Unhappiness

  Mary Lasswell (2016). “One on the House”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.

  Lisel Mueller

  Over You, Events, Doe

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• A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.

  Peter Ueberroth

  Baseball, Clouds, Games

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• I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.

  Anne Enright

  Book, Winning, People

  "Anne Enright: 'I was always on the side. Like a salad'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

  LeBron James

  Home, Past, Games

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• Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

  Amy Winehouse

  Taken, Clouds, Black

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