Quotes About Going Overboard

#1. When priorities are proper, the power to endure is increased. And when internalized, those priorities will help keep you from "going overboard."

Russell M. Nelson

#2. A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

Dawn Powell

#3. Religion is like having children, or taking medicine, or eating, or any of a thousand other perfectly rational human activities: Taken in small doses, it has much to recommend it. One need only avoid going overboard.

Jack McDevitt

#4. You don't even have to be the one praying, but if you get around somebody who really know how to pray-prayer will lift you when you've fallen, prayer will catch you when you've lost your grip, prayer will stop you from going overboard, prayer will bring you out!

T.D. Jakes

#5. People accuse me of going overboard preparing for my first ten million years in eternity; in my opinion, people go overboard in worrying about their last ten on earth.

Francis Chan

#6. Going overboard on a quest for perfection leads to life suckage and backsliding.

James S. Fell

#7. Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

Germaine Greer

#8. The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star.

Mike Mullane

#9. ... for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown

Herman Melville

#10. I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.

Yann Martel

#11. No, mes amis, impressionism is not charlatanry, nor a formula, nor a school. I should say rather it is the bold resolve to throw all those things overboard.

Joaquin Sorolla

#12. I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

Charles Spurgeon

#13. After noticing the fuel gauges were reading near empty, I looked out the top window, and I could see the fuel cap was being dragged along in the slipstream by its anchoring chain. Since the top of the wing was a low-pressure area, it had sucked my fuel right out and overboard. So,

Tom Brion

#14. The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.

Thomas John Barnardo

#15. You manage things; you lead people.

Grace Hopper

#16. The only thing I consciously avoid is playing the victim. I think women are portrayed as the victim in so many things, and I really like women with strength - although I feel now I may have gone overboard by playing so many strong, sassy women.

Kristen Bell

#17. The anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

Saul Williams

#18. Hire prudently, go slow and don't go overboard.

Lori Greiner

#19. But don't go overboard, Pat. You know what matters in the end." Pat laughed. "Family, the loyalty of your minions, and a reliable logistics support system?

Alex Gabriel

#20. Just because the boat rocks doesn't mean it's time to jump overboard.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#21. If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.

Shannen Doherty

#22. Tiberius Nero Blackthorn. I think his parents may have gone a little overboard. It's like naming someone Magnificent Bastard.

Cassandra Clare

#23. Micah 7:19 ... "You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea." The picture is of God vigorously disposing of our sins by hurling them overboard. He doesn't just drop them over the side; He hurls them ...

Jerry Bridges

#24. You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal.

Suzanne Somers

#25. The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw overboard so we don't sink.

Dorianne Laux

#26. A lot of people are now criticizing Attorney General John Ashcroft for his policy on detaining what he considers suspicious people. I think he's going a little overboard. Today, he arrested the entire band Foreigner.

Jay Leno

#27. Sed's heart sank to his toes. Too late for that. He was already on the boat. Was Jessica planning to kill him and then dump his body overboard before sailing off into the sunset with his drummer and bassist?

Olivia Cunning

#28. Family is everything!" he always said when he went overboard with sentimentality. "If you don't have family, what do you have?

Sonal Panse

#29. I've been a straight man for so many years that from force of habit I repeat everything. I went out fishing with a fellow the other day and he fell overboard. He yelled, Help! Help! Help! so I said, Help? Help? Help? And while I was waiting for him to get his laugh, he drowned.

George Burns

#30. It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. You have to make an effort, but not go overboard.

Alexandra Roach

#31. Edzard screamed at the men on the starboard side, threatening to throw them overboard if they didn't match the pace of the port team.

Neal Stephenson

#32. We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

Karl Barth

#33. Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way.

Swami Vivekananda

#34. The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

Beth Kephart

#35. It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.

A.R. Rahman

#36. Vanity and superficiality, placed deliberately on display, can be a burden; take this nonsense overboard.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#37. Kids nowadays ... tend to go overboard [on] protein - something I believe to be totally unnecsssary ... [I state in] my formula for basic good eating: Eat about one gram of protein for every two pounds of body weight.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#38. Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away.

Billy Graham

#39. Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

James A. Garfield

#40. The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

Hafez

#41. Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.

Andy Borowitz

#42. Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.

William Zinsser

#43. Nothing is more powerful than this nihilism, an angry readiness to throw everything overboard, a willingness, a longing to become part of dissolution. This emotion is one of the strongest reasons why wars continue. And

Doris Lessing

#44. It's a sinking ship," he said. "You ought to be grateful that they just threw you overboard.

Michael Chabon

#45. They couldn't have known that slowly, year by year, the ocean's water would ingest a people's fury so completely that hurricanes would come each season and claim lives in recompense for Africans gone overboard.

Daniel Black

#46. We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.

Freddie Mercury