Overstretched Quotes

#1. An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.

Jack Welch

#2. America is militarily overstretched, politically polarized and financially indebted.

Ivan Krastev

#3. Graham's life is as tense as an overstretched simile.

Zane Stumpo

#4. When the next big problem comes online, be it the Euro crisis, nuclear proliferation, an overstretched Internet, a killer flu, or any of the other possibilities I consider in X-Events, we will suffer a complexity overload.

John L. Casti

#5. Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems.

Jim Clyburn

#6. An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.

Ellen Tauscher

#7. Sometimes ... we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

Nigella Lawson

#8. I had some really great experiences doing overdubs.

John Britt Daniel

#9. At least my cage is filled with light.

Madonna

#10. The mongrel tongue of Slaver's Bay, an ugly blend of Old Ghiscari and High Valyrian.

Anonymous

#11. Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.

Richard Steele

#12. If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#13. New York [cannot] remain the center of commerce and capital for this continent, unless it has an independent bar and an honest judiciary.

Samuel J. Tilden

#14. When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.

George Soros

#15. I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.

Marguerite De Navarre

#16. I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal.

Elizabeth Berkley

#17. If the baby needs a bed," George offered, "Simon and I could keep him in our sock drawer."
Simon gave George an appalled glare. George looked distressed.

Cassandra Clare

#18. [H]is gentle horses graze on fertile grasses and tempt me to ride off in search of answers to what if and what's out there and why not. Where everything around me hints there is more to offer but tells me time and again ... not for me.

Julie Cantrell

#19. The Fate Gene A latent Ch05En gene destines someone for greatness. Maybe you'll be a rock star, or CEO of a Fortune 500. You might save somebody's life, or give birth to the greatest supporting actress of all time. Maybe you'll be a superhero. Those

William Dickstein

#20. We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates

Robert Moss

#21. Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.

Lennox Lewis