#surpassed

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#curve #dreamed #ever #every #every time

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#article #awards #bit #ceremony #completely

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone. ↗

— Edmond H. Fischer

#commonly #considering #fails #failure #far

This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#bad #capacity #globalisation #integrated #interdependent

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#envisioned #every #i #i am #pessimist

Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation. ↗

— Ron Kind

#china #debt #foreign #government #interests

This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations. ↗

— Steven Squyres

#mission #our #surpassed #whole

China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#already #also #building #china #economic

The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#before #cause #day #equaled #few

In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#first #in fact #just #million #online