Oversteps Quotes

#1. The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.

Elena Kagan

#2. 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

#3. Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

Soren Kierkegaard

#4. If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Epictetus

#5. Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness, and station; and hurries its victims madly on to degradation and death.

Charles Dickens

#6. We labor hard for certain but the work is rote and our tomorrows are mostly settled and the way we love one another is cast by the form of our excellent contiguity, a rigorous closeness that only rarely oversteps its bounds.

Chang-rae Lee

#7. might be followed. They were the hunters, not the prey. Bosch wondered what Lewis and Clarke were doing. Did they expect that he

Michael Connelly

#8. I am so happy that I made someone cry today - don't worry I'm a writer. It's when they make me cry that it's a problem.

Tina Smith

#9. If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.

C. K. Williams

#10. Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

William Shakespeare

#11. I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.

S.E. Hinton

#12. If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are "crying for the moon." We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die.

Alan W. Watts

#13. Miss Sarah never tattled. She tugged the rug over

Sue Monk Kidd

#14. For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

Richard Courant

#15. I just ... feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.

James Dashner

#16. An individual can't create anything itself. All of our dreams come true with the cooperation and co-creation of other souls.

Hina Hashmi

#17. I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.

Dana Goldstein

#18. Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.

Watchman Nee

#19. In the excitement of trying on dresses she had forgotten Mammy's ironclad rule that, before going to any party, the O'Hara girls must be crammed so full of food at home they would be unable to eat any refreshments at the party.

Margaret Mitchell

#20. Let me be kind and loving today because tomorrow is far far away.

Debasish Mridha

#21. The gods do not grant miracles for our purposes, but for theirs. If you are become their tool, it is for a greater reason, an urgent reason. But you are the tool. You are not the work.

Lois McMaster Bujold