Overcompensated Quotes

#1. I quit drugs before I quit drinking because drugs were taking their toll on me. I was sick of the headaches and the puking and the shitting blood. I figured I'd stop everything but alcohol, but then I overcompensated with drinking. Now I'm totally clean because I don't choose to do either.

Lars Frederiksen

#2. In many ways, I think I've always overcompensated. I was always almost too careful, because I knew if anybody ever found any way to doubt my work, then they'd start picking my life apart, too.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#3. He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

Neil Gaiman

#4. Truth is not something that can be followed; it has to be discovered. You cannot find truth through any book or through any accumulation of experience.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#5. Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don't.
There's just not much middle ground when it comes to technology.

Dani Harper

#6. The universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels). Behind the harsh appearance of the world there is a benign power.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#7. What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.

William Ross Ashby

#8. He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

Steven Morrissey

#9. If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

Brian Eno

#10. Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.

Ann Aguirre

#11. Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

Kate Jacobs

#12. I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.

Charles Dickens

#13. I guess lesbianism wasn't so rampant in those days, they would've gotten a bunk with each other and just left me alone, you know. Which would have been just as well, you know..

Charles Bukowski