Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "O" » overbearing
«Steve Jobs has always had a bit of Buzz Lightyear in him: comically self-confident, ingenuously overbearing and over endowed with charisma.»
Author: Katie Hafner
| Keywords:
buzz, buzzes, buzzing, Buzz Lightyear, charisma, comically, confident, endowed, ingenuously, jobs, overbear, overbearing, overborne, self-confident
«It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
brute, force field, ford, fortnight, frail, Green Grass, Henry, Henry Ford, Henry V, Hercules, napoleon, overbear, overbearing, overborne, sensitiveness, supports, terrific
«Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Fear
| Keywords:
assist, implant, implanted, implanting, implants, overbear, overbearing, overborne, preservative, preservatives, tyrannize, tyrannizes
«The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
assailant, inclined, liberty of the press, overbear, overbearing, overborne
«Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Fear
| Keywords:
assist, beset, besets, besetting, overbear, overbearing, overborne, phantoms, preservative, preservatives, tyrannize, tyrannizes
«If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Fanaticism,
Freedom,
Hell,
Law and lawyers,
Religion
| Keywords:
by law, fanaticism, freedom of religion, guaranteed, inquisition, inquisitions, in practice, in theory, overbear, overbearing, overborne, practice of law, prevail, public opinion, the Inquisition
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
