Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism. . . In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band. )
Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation.
I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.
it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.
It's an undeniable fact, that President Jonathan has done well for Nigeria in such a very short time, and I think he is the answer to the prayer of many Nigerians. I must not be President, but I have vowed to support anyone who shares the same vision I have for Nigeria. And take it from me, President Jonathan has surpassed my vision for Nigeria
Man is something that is to be surpassed.
[In] the realm of science,. . . what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed, that is the very meaning of scientific work. . . . Every scientific "fulfillment" raises new "questions" and cries out to be surpassed rendered obsolete. Everyone who wishes to serve science has to resign himself to this.
Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an "always future hollow", for we are always future to ourselves.
I believe Islam is superior. And will not be surpassed. So I believe that the law of God is much superior to man-made law.
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.
I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.
Man is something to be surpassed.
The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
Pele was the only footballer who surpassed the boundaries of logic.
I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.
My own duty as a teacher. . . is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I. . . hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the. . . art of music. . . To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.
Baby Steps are for Babies, Not Brands. Be Amazing or Be Surpassed.
Pliny. . . makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive. . . but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.
Our technology has surpassed our humanity