Overextended Quotes

#1. the prudent person neither neglects important commitments nor gets overextended.

William C. Mattison III

#2. Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

Barack Obama

#3. The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments.

Robert D. Kaplan

#4. By the way, when Oprah Winfrey is suggesting you may have overextended yourself, you need to examine your fucking life.

Tina Fey

#5. We ourselves are the substance we withdraw to, not from, as we pull our overextended and misplaced creative energy back into our own core.

Julia Cameron

#6. ...have you ever thought you knew someone--I mean really knew someone--then realized that the person you thought you knew only existed in your overextended mind...

Stephanie Verni

#7. At heart, 'Chef' is a daddy-daycare fable about an overextended man who teaches his 10-year-old son the family business and learns to love him.

Richard Corliss

#8. I'm not at all overextended ... I'm very, very hands-on.

Mark Burnett

#9. Our military is overextended. Nine out of 10 active-duty Army divisions are either in Iraq, going to Iraq or have come back from Iraq. One way or the other, they're wrapped up in it.

John F. Kerry

#10. We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric.

Issey Miyake

#11. It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Raymond Chandler

#12. In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as we are comfortably clothed and fed and looked after, our civilisation becomes an elaborate means of ignoring God.

Oswald Chambers

#13. Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left alone ... will furnish us with a number of very important uses ... If we are wise, we will cherish what we have left of such places in our land.

Olaus Murie

#14. The world is a drama, staged in a dream

Guru Nanak

#15. Have you noticed since Global Warming took hold that all the snowmen look kind of angry?

Dana Gould

#16. Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

Nicole Kidman

#17. Shakespeare gives you these clues - these little pieces of gold dust, I call them. They tell you so much about the story, the character, the drive, the intentions. It's like a gift.

Christian Camargo

#18. Was so proud that night, so self-possessed, standing tall, fully inhabited. I owned myself, felt fully mine to give.

Elisa Albert

#19. Music
can change the
mood in a
drumbeat.

Lisa Schroeder