Overstepped Quotes

#1. Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

Livy

#2. The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

Vladimir Putin

#3. The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.

Barton Gellman

#4. It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.

Herbert Hoover

#5. Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.

Seneca The Younger

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.

Anne Stuart

#8. The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

Sherrod Brown

#9. I'm super happy to see the record doing its thing and for people to like it, but for me, I had a great victory just as a person. I overstepped countless obstacles by creating that record. And the record's a metaphor for the personal steps I [took] throughout the past year.

Justin Vernon

#10. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

Confucius

#11. The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

James Madison

#12. And then she knew. Her friends and neighbors were angry at her because she had overstepped, given too much, offended them by excess.

Toni Morrison

#13. When the court that handpicked you to be president tells you you've overstepped your bounds, you've overstepped your bounds.

Jon Stewart

#14. The real secret of magic is that there is no magic.

Raymond E. Feist

#15. You know nothing until you realize that.

King Samuel Benson

#16. Evidently not. They are just governing

Rafael Sabatini

#17. Every time we do this, it convinces me that I'm exactly where I need to be.

Ella Frank

#18. All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn't find a speck of language lurking below the surface.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#19. Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

Camille Paglia

#20. Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.

Howard Gardner

#21. I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

Elizabeth Moon

#22. If you're going to be a zombie in a movie, you go big or go home.

Jessica Lucas

#23. The Bible does not authorize us, either by the words of the Lord or His apostles, to believe that the gifts of healing were granted only to the early church;

Andrew Murray

#24. Ex hoc momento pendet aeternites.
(Eternity hangs from this moment.)

Kerstin Gier

#25. Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Denis Waitley

#26. Frustration was my constant companion. I wanted to scream. What the he-eck are we supposed to do now? I asked Fang.
He looked at me, and I could tell he was mulling over the problem. He held out a small waxed-paper bag.
Peanut?

James Patterson