Quotes About Overreaching

#1. We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

Lizz Winstead

#2. The future chief justice of the United States told the delegates that an independent federal judiciary was a necessary bulwark against an overreaching Congress. If Congress were to exceed its powers, said Marshall, it would be the duty of the judiciary to declare the action void. Marshall

James F. Simon

#3. I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.

Lamar Alexander

#4. Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, which is the name for everyday life.

Henry Miller

#5. We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

Narendra Modi

#6. 'Obamacare,' as it's been called, is far too reaching. It's overreaching. It needs to have a lot of it repealed.

Joe Manchin

#7. The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.

Horace Mann

#8. We who live under heaven, we of the clovery kindgom, we middlesins people have often watched the sky overreaching the land.

James Joyce

#9. Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.

Sheryl Sandberg

#10. Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth.

Joe Craft

#11. Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching.

Ron Fournier

#12. Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time, there are strictures against idolatry, which is a kind of overreaching and confusing human beings' role with God's.

Michael Sandel

#13. The EPA has a history of overreaching its authority.

John Barrasso

#14. The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#15. Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

George Will

#16. We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

Steve Forbes

#17. Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.

Russ Feingold

#18. You do not command me. The silence went on and on, painful and breathless, like a singer overreaching to finish a phrase. Then,

Madeline Miller

#19. My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.

Anne Hathaway

#20. My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only to abandon them due to a lack of time, talent or inclination.

Susan Wiggs

#21. I'm the champion because I'm the best in every area.

Ronda Rousey

#22. You're not simply getting old, you're getting decrepit.... You

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#23. I gathered all the different Peel Sessions recordings together - I did six or seven of them over the years - and listened to all of them. These definitely have at least a superficial relationship to each other because they're all very spare.

Will Oldham

#24. We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.

Jerry Only

#25. In June 1991 he took the drastic step of asking a friend to post PGP on a Usenet bulletin board. PGP is just a piece of software, and so from the bulletin board it could be downloaded by anyone for free. PGP was now loose on the Internet.

Simon Singh

#26. Travel to other towns, states, and countries. Realize that your way is not the only way. Different doesn't equal bad or wrong. Be open minded and informed before making a decision.

Alison G. Bailey

#27. Jose Mourinho is a big star ... he's cool.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic