Overshot Quotes

#1. In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

Arthur Koestler

#2. The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

Arthur Koestler

#3. Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.

Sophie Swetchine

#4. Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.

Ariel Pink

#5. With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.

Mason Cooley

#6. I have six times as many Twitter followers as all the other candidates combined, but it didn't count because if it counted I'd still be a candidate; since I can't be a candidate that can't count.

Newt Gingrich

#7. Thai culture, while rare in its distrust of thinking, is not unique. The Inuit frown upon thinking. It indicates someone is either crazy or fiercely stubborn, neither of which is desirable.

Eric Weiner

#8. If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

Jon Bon Jovi

#9. I was Europe's last chance.

Adolf Hitler

#10. Government doesn't do much for the new Americans. The assumption is that they'll take care of themselves if they work hard enough.

David Levering Lewis

#11. Wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#12. Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems.

Noam Chomsky

#13. We now have capabilities in science and technology that raise the very realistic possibility that a small group of terrorists could kill not only thousands of people, as they did on September 11th, but hundreds of thousands of people. And that has changed the dimension of the threat we face.

Michael Chertoff

#14. He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.

George Orwell

#15. An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.

George Wein

#16. What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.

Gao Xingjian