Over You Quotes - Page 17

• The best thing would be to break your neck, but you'd probably just break your leg and then you couldn't do a thing. You'd yell at the top of your lungs, but nobody;d hear you, and you couldn't expect anybody to find you, and you'd have centipedes and spiders crawling all over you, and the bones of the ones who died before are scattered all around you, and it's dark and soggy, and way overhead there's this tiny, tiny circle of light like a winter moon. You die there in this place, little by little, all by yourself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dark, Winter, Moon

  Haruki Murakami (2007). “Vintage Murakami”, p.9, Vintage

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• Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.

  Napoleon Hill

  Self, Goal, Focus

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• When I did Ben 10, I really didn't know anything about Ben 10. But when I went back to visit my son Pierre and told him what I'd just done, he said "You did a Ben 10?!?" and then he started yelling out to my grandson, "Luca, Luca, come here, Granddaddy did a Ben 10 show." You suddenly discover you're gratte-cul with a five-year-old, and that's pretty cool."

  David McCallum

  Son, Yelling, Years

  Source: movieweb.com

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• There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that you have to be really smart to be really rich. I always say to people, the reason people believe this is a) they've never met a really smart person, and b) they've never met a really rich person. I have met both, and I cannot see the crossover. You do not have to be a genius to get rich. You have to be ruthless to get rich.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Country, Smart, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.

  Hulk Hogan

  Mistake, Wrestling, Feet

  "ESPN 'Hulk Hogan is still The Main Event'". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.thewrestlingtimes.com. October 12, 2011.

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• Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

  Jo Nesbo

  Written

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• You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

  Julian Assange

  Ignorant, Rulers

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• Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins.

  Gerald Edelman

  Brain, Gone, Twins

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• There is ripe fruit over your head.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fruit, Ripe Fruit, Ripe

  Henry David Thoreau, Ronald A. Bosco (2005). “Nature's Panorama: Thoreau on the Seasons”, p.23, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• If you continue to blame other people for “making” you feel guilty, they still have power over you, and you are saying that you will only feel good when they stop doing that. You are giving them control over your life. Stop blaming other people.

  Henry Cloud

  People, Giving, Feel Good

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2008). “Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No”, p.275, Zondervan

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• Do you know how much power I have over you? Yes, you, the one just sitting there hitting the f5 button day in and day out!

  Andrew Hussie

  Buttons, Sitting, Hitting

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• If you let social activities take precedence over your academic activities, then you will soon lose your basketball activities.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Academic, Social

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• A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.

  R. J. Palacio

  Girl, Kids, Big Sister

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• I'm a big believer in being an entrepreneur. It's easy for me to say because I work for myself and I am someone who likes that process. You have control over your destiny.

  Robert Greene

  Destiny, Entrepreneur, Likes

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Do your best and become as successful as you can because the more powerful you become, the smaller the other person gets, right? So it's like the bigger you are, the better you become, the less power other people have over you. The best thing to do is to always compete with yourself and not to compete with others.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Powerful, Successful, People

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Cancer, Cutting, Body

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.278, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.

  Ben Hecht

  Moving, Fate, People

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• Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

  Jean Cocteau

  Despair, Finesse, Force

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• Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.

  Samuel Beckett

  Achievement, Parent, Leaving

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. [...] That's the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you'll actually witness, that you'll participate in. Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it's Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering.

  Bill Murray

  Monday, Rolling, Wake Up

  "With Bill Murray, Just Take the Trip". Interview With Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. November 28, 2012.

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• When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

  Jose Bergamin

  Music, Eye, Listening

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• Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see it through to the end.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Guy, Want, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they're often told from a political perspective.

  Clint Eastwood

  Perspective, Political, Biographies

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J. Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• The BP president said yesterday that the company would survive. That's like someone running over your dog and saying, 'Don't worry, my car is fine.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, Dog, Yesterday

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• (J)ust to clarify: If you go into every situation saying there's absolutely nothing worth fighting over, you will inevitably end up on a cot sleeping next to a guy named Tiny, bringing him breakfast in his cell every morning, and spending your afternoons ironing his boxers. Or, in the case of the French, you might spend your afternoon rounding up Jews to send to Germany, but you get the point.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Morning, Sleep, Fighting

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