Overcoming Quotes - Page 37

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the most unsettling or the most comic or the most sexual.

The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.

When a person feels encouraged, he can face the impossible and overcome incredible adversity.

I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system - it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes.

I always claimed I became the Batman to fight crime. That was a lie. I did it to overcome the fear.

Judeo-Christian conservatism overcomes natural selfishness.

I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome.

I prided myself on working as hard as I could, trying to overcome a learning diability.

I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.

It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world.

Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome with the overwhelming compulsion to take Fang's temperature right then.

A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.

Every project has its things to be overcome, but I didn't find that there was anything particularly impossible about what we were doing - it was all quite exciting.

I hope we can all overcome any differences of culture, race, and language.

Whenever I see you, I am overcome with the urge to be rooted within you, to be buried deep so your body can nourish me.

The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.

Literature is the best way to overcome death.

Every married couple has disputes from time to time, and in every good marriage, an attempt is made to overcome the dispute.

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight.

I've picked passion-driven businesses where I create a concept, or produce a film, from scratch. You have to be tenacious to overcome the constant objections.