Overreaching Quotes

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

  George Will

  Excess, Admirable

  George F. Will (1984). “Statecraft as Soulcraft”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

  Eurípides

  Believe, Mad, Awareness

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

  Russ Feingold

  Patriotic, Government, Appropriate

  myDD.com, March 10, 2005.

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• Los redactores de nuestra Constitución comprendieron los peligros de la vigilancia gubernamental desenfrenada. Sabían que la democracia sólo podía florecer en espacios libres del fisgoneo y la interferencia del gobierno, y pusieron límites a la extralimitación gubernamental en la Cuarta Enmienda de la Carta de Derechos. . . . Estas protecciones requieren, como mínimo, un árbitro neutral -un magistrado- que se interponga entre el deseo infinito de información del gobierno y el deseo de privacidad de los ciudadanos.

  Elizabeth Holtzman

  Gobierno, Espacio, Derechos

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• 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

  Exercise, Confusing, Roles

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Time, Mean, Desire

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• 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

  Government, Hands, Trying

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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

  Lizz Winstead

  Political, Insane, Elements

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• 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

  Reality, Names, Everyday

  Henry Miller (1964). "Henry Miller on Writing", New Directions Publishing

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• I think people who want to use genetic technologies to gain a competitive edge for their children are engaging in a kind of overreaching that could really undermine our appreciation of children as gifts for which we should be grateful and, instead, to view them as products or instruments that are there to be molded and directed.

  Michael Sandel

  Appreciation, Children, Grateful

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Way, Film, Minutes

  "The Actress Roundtable". Interview with Matthew Belloni and Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 17, 2012.

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• El miedo está en la raíz de muchas de las barreras a las que se enfrentan las mujeres. Miedo a no caer bien. Miedo a tomar la decisión equivocada. Miedo a llamar la atención negativamente. Miedo a extralimitarse. Miedo a ser juzgadas. Miedo al fracaso. Y la santísima trinidad del miedo: el miedo a ser una mala madre/mujer/hija.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Hija, Madre, Raíces

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). "Lean In para graduados", p.33, Knopf.

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• The human condition is what it is. We can see beauty and wonder in the world, but we also face imminent death and uncertainty, and we often need to sidestep the idea of time and communicate with each other, not with words but with a sense of community and union. I don't want to make an overreaching statement, but I think that's the function of culture.

  Justin Adams

  Thinking, Ideas, Community

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Obamacare", como se le ha llamado, tiene un alcance excesivo. Va demasiado lejos. Es necesario derogar gran parte de él.

  Joe Manchin

  Obamacare, Needs, Reaching

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• 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

  Night, Leader, Political

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• When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching. They think they can turn everything into a "science" the way mechanics was turned into a science in the seventeeth century. They want to turn everything over to technocrats and social engineers. They become shortsighted or simplistic about their ends, and they disastrously overestimate their ability to acquire the information they need to make the needed calculations.

  Allen W. Wood

  Simple, Pensamiento, Gente

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Con un resentimiento en el hombro mayor que su margen de victoria, Barack Obama aborda su segundo mandato repitiendo el error del primero. Entonces su extralimitación afectó a la sanidad, ampliando el Estado de derechos a expensas del crecimiento económico. Ahora busca otra oleada de estatismo, ampliando la parte del producto interior bruto captada por el gobierno y dispensada por la política. La ocasión es el mal llamado "precipicio fiscal", cuyo nombre correcto es: la agenda del Partido Demócrata.

  George Will

  Error, Partido, Gobierno

  "Un precipicio elegido por los demócratas", por George Will, www.washingtonpost.com. 28 de noviembre de 2012.

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• 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

  Teaching, Training, Example

  Horace Mann (1857). “Demands of the Age on Colleges”, p.46

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• 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

  Vision, Fancy, Adults

  Susan Wiggs (2011). “The Goodbye Quilt”, p.9, MIRA

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