Overstep Quotes

#1. The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.

Desmond Tutu

#2. Her eyes sparkle with a rising dampness. I've seemed to overstep myself,
Samuel.

Nathan Reese Maher

#3. But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

Vladimir Lenin

#4. On the field accolades are great, but in order to reach your full potential, you have to overstep the boundaries of football and go out into the community and be an All-Pro there too.

Derrick Thomas

#5. There is a line in everything which it is dangerous to overstep; and when it has been overstepped, there is no return.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. You've got to make sure that you don't overstep your boundaries with teachers, especially when it's report card day or when you're about to take a test.

Jordan Francis

#7. In mythology, lightning represents either the loss of ignorance or punishment for those who overstep their bounds. I used two bolts since we intend to do both.

Joelle Charbonneau

#8. The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.

Giacomo Leopardi

#9. How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?

Paulo Coelho

#10. We must know our own roles. We should also know the roles that others play, and the rules such roles follow. In this manner, social harmony is maintained. It is when we overstep our roles, or act without knowing them, that social anarchy ensues.

F. Sionil Jose

#11. The individual who violates the rules in a zealous search for an answer to the problem may overstep the bounds and thereby suffer the loss of his relationships to the organized medical profession.

Morris Fishbein

#12. The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

Confucius

#13. Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.

Jules Verne

#14. Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators.

Chuck Grassley

#15. When we care about people, we sometimes overstep our grounds.

C.C. Hunter

#16. Utopia's value lies not in its relation to present practice but in its relation to a possible future. Its "practical" use is to overstep the immediate reality to depict a condition whose clear desirability draws us on, like a magnet.

Krishan Kumar

#17. It is ridiculous to sue the president on a Wednesday because he oversteps the law, as he has done a dozen times illegally and unconstitutionally, and then on a Thursday say that he should overstep the law, contradict the law that passed in 2008 and deal with this himself.

Charles Krauthammer

#18. Magnus held up a warning finger. "Don't overstep yourself, biscuit," he said, and moved past them, disappearing into the crowd around the portal.
"Biscuit?" said Simon.
"Believe it or not, he's called me that before," Clary said.

Cassandra Clare

#19. Poetry is a mug's game.

T. S. Eliot

#20. Immature people want quick fixes; they are the all or nothing thinkers. Evolving adults know that lasting change means being committed to the small daily steps over the long-term, deliberate journey.

Shannon Tanner

#21. In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you know? It has to be a long e-mail. It has to be a five-page hand-written letter, you know, it has to be overwhelming and messy and sloppy as humans are.

Sherman Alexie

#22. Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.

John Twelve Hawks

#23. I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime.

Henning Von Tresckow

#24. the envelope. "And our best wishes.

Nora Roberts

#25. I feel my best when I'm happy.

Winona Ryder