“Imagination over dogma, vulnerability over serenity, aspiration over obligation, comedy over tragedy, hope over experience, prophecy over memory, surprise over repetition, the personal over the impersonal, time over eternity, life over everything.”

“It's over. Absolutely, completely, eternally over”

Alyson Nöel book Evermore

“[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.”

Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer

“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”

Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman

“Knowledge accumulates over time; it’s not just one person or one set of time but over many hundreds of years. That gives me hope.”

Sheyene Gerardi Venezuelan actor and model

“The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian

“If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.”

Subhash Kak (1947) Indian computer scientist

“Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

“Applaud my friends, the comedy is over…”

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer

“This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.”

Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy