Overreach Quotes

#1. With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color things in more and you're allowed to overreach yourself a little bit more, and it's great fun.

Hans Zimmer

#2. There is no greater example of government overreach and unrestrained liberalism than 'Obamacare.' It is so deeply flawed and such a clear and present threat to our economic stability that there is no way to fix it.

Tommy Thompson

#3. You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach, those two ideas are not mutually exclusive. You can have great regard for law enforcement and still want them to be held to high standards.

Jon Stewart

#4. first, that whichever side believes it is winning will tend to overreach, pushing too far, too fast, and in the process alienating the public.

Yuval Levin

#5. Men who seek power eventually overreach themselves, you know that.

Anne Leonard

#6. If Southern white men are not careful, they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will have a reaction; a conclusion will then be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

#7. It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate.

Mark Zandi

#8. A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

Raymond Chandler

#9. Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.

John Podhoretz

#10. There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.

Chris Stewart

#11. Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

Seneca The Younger

#12. The truth is, most of the genuinely tragic episodes of lost food are things that are somewhat outside the reach of the home cook, even a home cook like me who has been known to overreach from time to time.

Nora Ephron

#13. 'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you enjoy platitudinous straw men but are turned off by open debate and constitutional order, this speech was for you.

David Harsanyi

#14. Words spoken in the heat of the moment may be forgiven; words preserved for ever on parchment may overreach their mark once passion has abated.

Susan Kay

#15. Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

Paul Ryan

#16. It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#17. I think there is some overreach in the sense that the EPA now says: if Congress doesn't pass greenhouse emissions regulations or testing, we'll simply do it on our own. I think that's an arrogance of a regulatory body run amok.

Rand Paul

#18. I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

Michael Sandel

#19. What happens when you have vast legislative overreach is you don't particularly fix the problem you started out to fix but create problems for everyone else.

Carly Fiorina

#20. If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

Neil Jordan

#21. The main thing is, too many players feel like they're complete players when they're not, so rather than acknowledge their limitations and play within their ability, they overreach.

Tex Winter

#22. Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.

David Harsanyi

#23. It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.

William Rehnquist

#24. There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death.

Charles Dickens

#25. It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.

Rick Scott

#26. Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy.

Jesse Jackson

#27. How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.

Gautama Buddha

#28. The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

Vartan Gregorian

#29. America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

Chuck Schumer

#30. Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#31. Sometimes, cameras can't capture a scene like your brain does. But the use of apps can help get it just a little closer to reality.

Connor Franta

#32. Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

David Lloyd George

#33. The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient.

R.D. Laing

#34. I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have known a great many different sorts of people in different situations, and I have a notion how very well of badly people can behave in times of stress or danger or violence.

Marge Piercy

#35. The two most underrated priorities of a woman's life are Love for God and Love for self. Prioritize these two and all other loves will fall into place.

Michele Owes

#36. Trying to be like me as a person is not a good idea. To have the same interest, to talk about the same and so on and so on... it's kind time waste!

Deyth Banger

#37. And the fact that you must make the movie for yourself because no one else will ever fully appreciate the endeavor, makes it a more rewarding challenge.

Richard King

#38. I work hard to show my mother that her child has a purpose.

Lil B

#39. Bravery may be observed when a person tramples one fear whilst in secret flight from a greater terror. And those whose greatest terror is being thought a coward are always brave. I, on the other hand, am a coward.

Mark Lawrence