The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far.
I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.
Reagan, people claimed, was too old to run for president and to be elected. But he proved himself such a vigorous campaigner in the primary system that he overcame those beliefs.
Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb. . . it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.
A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.
He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.
I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
I overcame my fears and troubles simply by praying and learning to calm down when scary things were happening - I formed certain mantras which helped me become pro-active vs. reactive, such as : What's the problem? What's the solution? Time Energy Money What do I get? What do I give? Shrink It. Fix it. Grow it.
I overcame size with mechanics.
I feel I overcame something pretty great.
London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by agreeing that none of its naked actors would move any part of hisher body.
I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.
Jesus gave us the victory with which He overcame Satan, and commissioned us to cast out devils in His Name.
I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.
It is a testament to the fundamental honesty of football that Israel, with nothing to play for, overcame Russia in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The sport has its faults, but this basic trust is the reason Wembley holds 80,000 and could take more and the track and field venue for the London Olympics will be reduced after the event to the same capacity as the home of Wigan Athletic.
It is worthwhile to liveand fight courageouslyfor sacred ideals. O blow ye evil windsinto my body's firemy soul you'll never unravel. Even though disappointed a thousand timesor fallen in the fightand everything would worthless seem,I have lived amidst eternity -Be grateful, my soul -My life was worth living. He who was pressed from all sidesbut remained victorious in spiritis welcomed into the choir of heroes. He who overcame the fettersgiving wings to his mindis entering into the golden age ofthe victorious.
What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
We all experienced people putting us down and people saying we couldn't do it. We overcame it.
Every man who truly loves a woman, and every woman who truly loves a man, hopes and dreams that their companionship will last forever. But marriage is a covenant sealed by authority. If that authority is of the state alone, it will endure only while the state has jurisdiction, and that jurisdiction ends with death. But add to the authority of the state the power of the endowment given by Him who overcame death, and that companionship will endure beyond life if the parties to the marriage live worthy of the promise.
I came, saw, and overcame.
