Quotes about Taking Over

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. Votes: 4

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over. Votes: 4

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal. Votes: 4

The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum. Votes: 4

I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city. Votes: 4

I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy. Votes: 4

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys. Votes: 4

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market. Votes: 4

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. Votes: 4

Iran is taking over Iraq. Votes: 3

My country is taking over in tennis Votes: 3

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over. Votes: 3

We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over. Votes: 3

I'm telling you, the Oriental people, they're slowly taking over. Votes: 3

McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business. Votes: 3

God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world. Votes: 3

I took a chance with my heart and I feel it taking over Votes: 3

Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie? Votes: 3

I want to win the game. I dont worry about taking over the game unless I have to. Votes: 3

We've had a day of great drama and of humour too. The rumour mill is now taking over Votes: 3

Maybe it's weird, but I don't feel in any way, shape or form that I'm taking over his show. Votes: 3

'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum. Votes: 3

What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights. Votes: 3

Every show that comes out that's female driven is compared to the last female-driven show, as if it's taking over. Votes: 3

Always make sure your jewelry isn't taking over you or your ensemble and keep everything in proportion to your frame Votes: 3

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four. Votes: 3

For me, the movement has to be bigger than just a record. For me, a movement represents like taking over the world. Votes: 3

The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all gone. Votes: 3

Motherfuckers will read a book that's one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we're taking over. Votes: 3

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function. Votes: 3

If you really look at the aftermath of Iraq, Iran is going to be taking over Iraq. They've been doing it. And it's not a pretty picture. Votes: 3

The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut. Votes: 3

Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice. Votes: 3

I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are taking over or covering man's traces. Votes: 3

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company. Votes: 3

It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do. Votes: 3

Oprah Winfrey gives you the stage? Shut your mouth. I said, 'I'm sorry for taking over your show.' She said, 'No, that's why we have you here.' Votes: 3

Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal will be about socializing...uh, um...Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies. Votes: 3

If the Angels won, the entire Earth would be nothing but one giant Christmas frickin' morning, a choking wave of happiness and warmth and caring and sharing taking over everything. Votes: 3

Humans have a proven track record in taking over planes by the use of threats, which work because the legitimate pilots value their own lives and those of their passengers. Votes: 3

For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive. Votes: 3

I like to think that Harry Cohn is having a somewhat difficult time sleeping in his grave thinking of a chick with a white shag rug taking over his space. Votes: 3

Iran is taking over Iraq. They've been trying to for many, many decades. And now they're finally taking over Iraq. As we sit here, they're taking over Iraq. We get nothing. Votes: 3

House of Style' changed my life. I literally had no experience in front of a TV camera before, and there I was taking over for Rebecca Romijn. My exposure heightened instantly. Votes: 3

Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement. Votes: 3

I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand. Votes: 3

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools. Votes: 3

A new Republican Congress is taking over. Sen. Ted Cruz has been appointed tooverseeing NASA in Congress. He says he wants NASA to focus on finding aliens so he can deport them. Votes: 3

I mean the reason the sit-down strikes struck such fear in the hearts of management was that they knew that a sit-down strike was just one step short of taking over the factory. Votes: 3

Big Ben just kept building up. It ended up coming off the field. It kept taking over. Superman kept taking over Clark Kent and you just never saw who Ben Roethlisberger was any more. Votes: 3

I went to the juice isle, I learned something. Cranberries are taking over everything. What do you got, apples? Put some cranberrise in there, make it 50/50. Cran-apple. Grapes? Cran-grape. Mangos? Cran-mango. Pork chops? Cran-chop! Votes: 3

Eisenhower admitted that the budget can't be balanced and McCarthy said the communists are taking over. You don't know what to worry about these days - whether the country will be overthrown or overdrawn. Votes: 3

As you sit there and as I sit here, they are going in. They're taking over, and they just walk in and they can do whatever they want. They have essentially already taken it over. Votes: 3

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse! Votes: 3

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that. Votes: 3

The end of war begins with people who believe that another world is possible and that another empire has already interrupted time and space and is taking over this earth with the dreams of God. Votes: 3

If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity. Votes: 3

I am no longer going to go along with this idea that we're going to keep spending and borrowing and taking over and raising taxes, that I'm going to do everything I can to change things. Votes: 3

I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile, still organic. Votes: 3

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum. Votes: 3

Unlike the urban development that I see taking over and swallowing up our precious soil, when we interact with our environment in a way that allows for regeneration and natural spaces, the outcome can be beautiful. Votes: 3

In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story. Votes: 3

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration. Votes: 3

Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved. Votes: 3

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny. Votes: 3

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage. Votes: 3

Even if this is only nonsense and dreams, I feel the need to perpetuate it all. Especially at this moment, when this pain is taking over my mind and my self. Pretty soon none of this will make any difference. Votes: 3

Iran should write us yet another letter saying thank you very much, because Iran, as I said many years ago, Iran is taking over Iraq, something they've wanted to do forever, but we Americans have made it so easy for them. Votes: 3

I have a very positive outlook on things. It's hard to predict how actual books are going to do but I'm not freaked out about ebooks taking over. I think there are probably more active readers now because of computers and iPhones. Votes: 3

Every few years when it's been another five years that have passed and I haven't made a film and the depression starts taking over totally, I allow myself to do a commercial. And then I feel really dirty and get to work promptly. Votes: 3

For me, it's more about being there, bearing witness to history, bearing witness to what's happening, what our country, the position our country is taking overseas. I want policy-makers to see the fruits of their decisions, basically, and to try and influence foreign policy. Votes: 3

I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important. Votes: 3

The scumbags are taking over the streets. I don't know what David Cameron and Gordon Brown are going to do about it. It all goes back to the Thatcher (Margaret Thatcher) years. It sounds like a cliché but that's when the rot set in. Votes: 3

I was on the verge of taking over a company myself, from my father, before I left Knoxville to become an actor. I was also a company commander in Korea, so I had some sense of how powerful authority can be. How dangerous it can be. Votes: 3

I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking over you like that. You're playing a part in a much bigger show. And that's what life is. It's the greatest show on earth. Votes: 3

We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties. Votes: 3

I explained to the president that I've been pleased with my conversations with the Attorney General and Civil Rights Division regarding their helpful understanding that they aren't taking over this investigation, but are conducting a parallel review of the events that led to Michael Brown's death. Votes: 3

So it was this multi-perspective, multi-character book, and it went through all of these different manifestations. I'm not sure there was a single moment where I thought to myself, Oh, I need to write about Margaret Cavendish. She just kept taking over the book I thought I was writing. Votes: 3

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it. Votes: 3

I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio. Votes: 3

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. Votes: 2

Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans. Votes: 2

Taking a principled and consistent stance over Iraq has attracted much criticism from our detractors and opponents. Votes: 2

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. Votes: 2

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal. Votes: 2

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m. Votes: 2

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives. Votes: 2

Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end. Votes: 2

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. Votes: 2

Hopefully I'll get to make another movie, so we'll see. But modeling - all the actresses are taking everything over now, with all the modeling endorsements and magazine covers. Votes: 2

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. Votes: 2

Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes. Votes: 0

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head Votes: 0

The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over. Votes: 0

NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?! Votes: 0

Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage. Votes: 0

I fought, I fought harder . . . but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over. Votes: 0

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior. Votes: 0

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. Votes: 0

If I have to win one game, I'd have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman. Votes: 0

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism. Votes: 0

It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line. Votes: 0

Its not that I dont value my life. Its just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line. Votes: 0

When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there. Votes: 0

We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally. Votes: 0

There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good. Votes: 0

My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical. Votes: 0

The President of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day. Votes: 0

I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury. Votes: 0

History...shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period of time. Votes: 0

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street. Votes: 0

Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party. Votes: 0

For too long we have been taking, and the Earth has been giving. But that free-for-all, that all-you-can-eat buffet, it's over. The salad bar is closed. Votes: 0

It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and starting over Votes: 0

We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing. Votes: 0

I really want to hit him, she said.Bloodthirsty, he murmured, taking her hand, running his thumb over the pulse racing at her wristI like it. Votes: 0

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Votes: 0

The kids are so much fun. I'm always taking a look over at what they're doing because it reminds me of when I was so small before. Votes: 0

Well, when I walk behind short people I feel like I'm going to fall over because I start taking these little steps, and I can't take little steps. Votes: 0

I'm not taking maternity leave from 'Big Brother.' I e-mailed my boss over there this weekend and I said, 'Don't worry. I can still do the show! Votes: 0

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon. Votes: 0

One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal. Votes: 0

Research has shown over and over again that the more you acknowledge your past successes, the more confident you become in taking on and successfully accomplishing new ones. Votes: 0

excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous Votes: 0