Overreaction Quotes

#1. My legs have the strength of mashed potatoes. I'm cold and clammy and my stomach churns like I vomited. That's because I did, in the viewing room, and I discovered that yellow bile does not blend well with red velvet industrial carpeting. My crowning achievement in overreaction.

Katie McGarry

#2. I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.

Marc Rich

#3. For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.

George Stephanopoulos

#4. Light control works; close control leads to overreaction, sometimes causing the machinery to break into pieces. In a famous paper "On Governors," published in 1867, Maxwell modeled the behavior and showed mathematically that tightly controlling the speed of engines leads to instability.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.

Fred Barnes

#6. I think they should rename the place Unnecessary Violent Overreaction. In

Tui T. Sutherland

#7. I feel kind of exhilarated. And kind of emptied out. Which may seem like an overreaction, but then, in case you hadn't picked it up, I am the Queen of Overreaction.

Sophie Kinsella

#8. The excess energy released from overreaction to setbacks is what innovates!

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.

Gregg Easterbrook

#10. Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#11. I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.

Clive Barker

#12. What happens is my mind starts to go in circles, thinking and thinking, and then I can't sleep. And once a couple of days go by, if you haven't slept, you start to get sick. You can't eat. You start to cry. It just feeds on itself.

Mohsin Hamid

#13. Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.

Francesca Da Rimini

#14. Corporations! It's like there are these gigantic monsters living among us, and we don't mind that they're monsters because when we look at them they smile and hand us cheeseburgers. That's nuts.

Max Barry

#15. Off in strata of porous rock by the leathery half-plant, half-animal little makers - and

Frank Herbert

#16. walked in and sat down in booth number

Penelope Ward

#17. Society's revenge matched its fright.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#18. A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.

Stephenie Meyer

#19. It's never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

Amy Poehler

#20. I always designed my robes and how I would present myself at every fight.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#21. He made her happy and maede her laugh. She still enjoyed talking with him, watching TV with him, lying in bed with him on cold, rainy mornings. She still wanted him.

Liane Moriarty

#22. You're very in tune with, because actors are all different, and it's very tricky when you throw us all together because we all work differently. You want to get the best work out of every individual actor.

Charlize Theron

#23. She knew that nothing was ever as overwhelming or final as he seemed to think - that if he would wait, instead of shouting, there'd be less to shout over in the end.

Josephine Johnson

#24. When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#25. The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'

Al Gore

#26. Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

Philip Larkin

#27. The Tausennigan Ob'enn warlords look like cuddly teddy-bears?"
"Yes, they do, and they'd cheerfully exterminate your entire race for making that observation!"
"I guess that explains their rich military history, then.

Howard Tayler

#28. There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.

Jerome Robbins

#29. I get this this is intense because I'm intense, that's the whole fuckin' deal. I get it'll take you a while to get used to it. But you want it. Fuck, you even like it. You just don't understand it yet. But you will.

Kristen Ashley

#30. If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Nile Rodgers

#31. Nervous people tend to overreact.

Toba Beta