This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.
Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U. S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.
Dear friends, sometimes we may be tempted to allow ourselves be overtaken by laziness or despondency, especially when faced with the hardships and trials of life. In these cases, do not lose heart, but invoke the Holy Spirit, so that with the gift of fortitude He can lift our hearts and communicate new vigor and enthusiasm to our lives and our following Jesus.
I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage?. . . Whatever devices you use should always be there to serve the theme. If the theme has been overtaken by the device, then something's wrong.
Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.
Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to help or hear me: I rejected the Voice of Providence.
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.
A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment.
Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken.
Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.
A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity
Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the book I'm writing at the moment.
