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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough – Og Mandino	added by anonymous 4 years ago
This is how democracies die in the 21st century, they dont die because tanks overtake parliament, they die from the inside. – Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
They started as an overnight letter company. But even before there was email, Fred Smith correctly surmised that fax would overtake the overnight letter, you have to admire the tenacity with which Fred Smith's continued to stay ahead of the curve. – Helane Becker	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'll have to take a lot of risks I think, even risking to crash, but at the end that's the only thing we need to do now, to try and be extreme in our overtaking because this is a track where it's basically impossible to overtake. – Charles Leclerc	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I was trying to follow the Ferrari in front of me and trying to overtake him, this time it caught me out and I'm not happy about that, it's annoying because we could have fought for third today. – Max Verstappen	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Many of these activists can’t go to sleep at night because they are so worried that the pro-North Korea movements in the South may overtake what they have accomplished, park tried to deter the North, whereas Moon is fulfilling their conditions and compensations. The Kim regime has only one goal: Unify the Korean Peninsula in their communism way and become a nuclear power. – Kim Dong Yon	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Compassion fatigue is a well-established concept in the realm of health care providers. First observed in nurses who worked in emergency rooms, it describes the sense of helplessness and hopelessness that can overtake a person providing care for someone whose suffering seems never-ending and insurmountable. – Paul Hokemeyer	added by anonymous 7 years ago
I'm passionate about driving, that's the only one that can overtake the pace of my thoughts! – Ramana Pemmaraju	added by Ramana Pemmaraju 7 years ago
I'm not going to tell you what but, yes. He's beyond any doubt committed to this team for multiple years, he's demonstrated he's got a great amount of natural talent, he can overtake, he can race... everything I've seen of his development so far has impressed me enormously and I think that curve will continue. – Daniel Ricciardo	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
A repeat performance of positive growth is unlikely in 2016, since the improving economy and Affordable Care Act provided a lift that can't overtake longer-term headwinds to growth, like pressure by payors to reduce short-stays and readmissions. – Megan Neuburger	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Europe is in a nervous crisis, will a Europe of fear and racism overtake a Europe of solidarity? – Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If you overtake cars at the start, or you start in front of them because of penalties, they will pass you on lap one so it's even more frustrating, nothing has changed. We will try to do our race, to learn things on the car and finish as high up as possible. It's not the best situation, but unfortunately it is the way it is at the moment because we are not competitive at all. – Spaniard Fernando Alonso	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our straightline speed is good and that makes me fairly confident for the race as this is a place where you can overtake, i feel we're quicker than the cars in front, so we'll see how it pans out. – Sebastian Vettel	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
With the new start situation, and we're having to do everything ourselves now, there's a lot more opportunity tomorrow even at the start, on the run down to turn five here it is possible to overtake so my hopes are for sure still alive. – Nico Rosberg	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When life will go over itself, reality will overtake dreams. – Fabio Meneghella	added by anonymous 8 years ago
When life will go over itself, reality will overtake dreams. If you are born, you’re already a winner, in the Universe lap of your precious mother you’ve wrought millions of candidates to life. You’re already the chosen one, you’ve already flight one time. Now God ask you to make your last flight. Conquest your brothers’ brain, conquest Synaptic Paradise and you’ll conquest the eternity, and the real Paradise will open your eyes. A woman’s heart will accompany the passage of time, and it will be the symbol of your rebirth. To save the world, we don’t need an hero, but a good parent. You’re a memory, you’re reborn, the Earth will have you. You’re in my brain, you’ll fly over your brothers’ brain, like the Verb of God. This will be your Paradise, you’ll fly, because flying is believing! – Fabio Meneghella	added by JP03 8 years ago
Our goal is to overtake Amazon in four years, whether that's in customers, technology, or worldwide scale, amazon, Microsoft and others have already laid the groundwork for us by educating the markets about cloud in the U.S. and Europe, so we have an even better opportunity to join in the competition. – Simon Hu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If you can overtake the fear of failure, you will be a winner in life, for sure. – Debasish Mridha, M.D.	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I'm confident we will overtake them. – Jose Munoz	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You can call them whatever term you want but absolutely there are neighborhoods where we have communities of people that don't want to integrate, don't want to assimilate, they're actually going in there to colonize, to overtake the culture. That's what's going to happen in America if we're not careful. – Bobby Jindal	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else. – Orison Swett Marden	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is Christmas Day – David Grayson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough

– Og Mandino

added by anonymous
4 years ago

This is how democracies die in the 21st century, they dont die because tanks overtake parliament, they die from the inside.

– Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

They started as an overnight letter company. But even before there was email, Fred Smith correctly surmised that fax would overtake the overnight letter, you have to admire the tenacity with which Fred Smith's continued to stay ahead of the curve.

– Helane Becker

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I'll have to take a lot of risks I think, even risking to crash, but at the end that's the only thing we need to do now, to try and be extreme in our overtaking because this is a track where it's basically impossible to overtake.

– Charles Leclerc

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I was trying to follow the Ferrari in front of me and trying to overtake him, this time it caught me out and I'm not happy about that, it's annoying because we could have fought for third today.

– Max Verstappen

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Many of these activists can’t go to sleep at night because they are so worried that the pro-North Korea movements in the South may overtake what they have accomplished, park tried to deter the North, whereas Moon is fulfilling their conditions and compensations. The Kim regime has only one goal: Unify the Korean Peninsula in their communism way and become a nuclear power.

– Kim Dong Yon

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Compassion fatigue is a well-established concept in the realm of health care providers. First observed in nurses who worked in emergency rooms, it describes the sense of helplessness and hopelessness that can overtake a person providing care for someone whose suffering seems never-ending and insurmountable.

– Paul Hokemeyer

added by anonymous
7 years ago

I'm passionate about driving, that's the only one that can overtake the pace of my thoughts!

– Ramana Pemmaraju

added by Ramana Pemmaraju
7 years ago

I'm not going to tell you what but, yes. He's beyond any doubt committed to this team for multiple years, he's demonstrated he's got a great amount of natural talent, he can overtake, he can race... everything I've seen of his development so far has impressed me enormously and I think that curve will continue.

– Daniel Ricciardo

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

A repeat performance of positive growth is unlikely in 2016, since the improving economy and Affordable Care Act provided a lift that can't overtake longer-term headwinds to growth, like pressure by payors to reduce short-stays and readmissions.

– Megan Neuburger

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Europe is in a nervous crisis, will a Europe of fear and racism overtake a Europe of solidarity?

– Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If you overtake cars at the start, or you start in front of them because of penalties, they will pass you on lap one so it's even more frustrating, nothing has changed. We will try to do our race, to learn things on the car and finish as high up as possible. It's not the best situation, but unfortunately it is the way it is at the moment because we are not competitive at all.

– Spaniard Fernando Alonso

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our straightline speed is good and that makes me fairly confident for the race as this is a place where you can overtake, i feel we're quicker than the cars in front, so we'll see how it pans out.

– Sebastian Vettel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

With the new start situation, and we're having to do everything ourselves now, there's a lot more opportunity tomorrow even at the start, on the run down to turn five here it is possible to overtake so my hopes are for sure still alive.

– Nico Rosberg

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When life will go over itself, reality will overtake dreams.

– Fabio Meneghella

added by anonymous
8 years ago

When life will go over itself, reality will overtake dreams. If you are born, you’re already a winner, in the Universe lap of your precious mother you’ve wrought millions of candidates to life. You’re already the chosen one, you’ve already flight one time. Now God ask you to make your last flight. Conquest your brothers’ brain, conquest Synaptic Paradise and you’ll conquest the eternity, and the real Paradise will open your eyes. A woman’s heart will accompany the passage of time, and it will be the symbol of your rebirth. To save the world, we don’t need an hero, but a good parent. You’re a memory, you’re reborn, the Earth will have you. You’re in my brain, you’ll fly over your brothers’ brain, like the Verb of God. This will be your Paradise, you’ll fly, because flying is believing!

– Fabio Meneghella

added by JP03
8 years ago

Our goal is to overtake Amazon in four years, whether that's in customers, technology, or worldwide scale, amazon, Microsoft and others have already laid the groundwork for us by educating the markets about cloud in the U.S. and Europe, so we have an even better opportunity to join in the competition.

– Simon Hu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If you can overtake the fear of failure, you will be a winner in life, for sure.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I'm confident we will overtake them.

– Jose Munoz

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You can call them whatever term you want but absolutely there are neighborhoods where we have communities of people that don't want to integrate, don't want to assimilate, they're actually going in there to colonize, to overtake the culture. That's what's going to happen in America if we're not careful.

– Bobby Jindal

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

– Orison Swett Marden

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

– Benjamin Franklin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is Christmas Day

– David Grayson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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