Overbearing Quotes:

People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing.

- Guy Browning

topic: People, Overbearing, Organisation, Overcompensating, Overachieving

Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Cake, Condescending, Overbearing

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Law, Practice, Public Opinion, Fanaticism, Freedom Of Religion

People have an overbearing need to project their inward doubt and hatred and emotions onto the outside world.

- Vince Staples

source: Source: www.complex.com

topic: People, Hatred, Doubt, Overbearing

It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.

- D. H. Lawrence

source: D. H. Lawrence (2013). “Etruscan Places”, p.31, Read Books Ltd

topic: Baby, Men, Support, Brute Force, Fortnight

Do what Jesus says... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18].

- Bernard of Clairvaux

source: "Bernard of Clairvaux on the Life of the Mind". Book by John R. Sommerfeldt, 2004.

topic: Jesus, Leader, Church, Vicars, Overbearing

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

- Omar Epps

topic: Doubt, Directors, Instinct, Overbearing

My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that.

- Tom Bergeron

topic: Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Firsts, Overbearing

I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am -- and this ought to be made very clear -- I am a very serious woman.

- Bella Abzug

source: Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

topic: Mother, Men, Names, Man Hater, Jewish Mother

Hear me people: We have now to deal with another race - small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.

- Sitting Bull

source: "Chief Sitting Bull knew of the Elite in this 1877 speech". Sitting Bull's speech at the Powder River Conference, beforeitsnews.com. 1877.

topic: Father, Race, People, Our Father, Tithe

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.

- Twyla Tharp

source: "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

topic: Decision, Parent, Age, Overbearing

Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

- James Madison

topic: Party, Rights, Justice, Tyranny Of The Majority, Considerate And Caring

...to make the world safe for democracy.

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: Historical, Democracy, Safe, Anthropology, Peaceful Coexistence

Many young men, when they receive their first wife, are just so untrained. The woman, if she's not careful, will be overbearing and always ask permission for what she wants. And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That's how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living.

- Warren Jeffs

topic: Husband, Children, Men, Righteous Living, Overbearing

Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Answers, Obedience, Authority, Overbearing

For more than a year, he'd felt destined to marry Isabel Arundell; now, suddenly, he wasn't so sure. He loved her, that was certain, but he also resented her. He loved her strength and practicality but resented her overbearing personality and tendency to do things on his behalf without consulting him first; loved that she tolerated his interest in all things exotic and erotic but hated her blinkered Catholicism. Charles Darwin had killed God but she and her family, like so many others, still clung to the delusion.

- Mark Hodder

topic: Atheist, First Love, Years, Consulting, Overbearing

Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Selfish, Princess, Want, Overbearing

There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.

- Daisaku Ikeda

topic: Leader, Arrogant, Want, Overbearing

My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant.

- Diana Trilling

source: Diana Trilling (1993). “The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling”, Harcourt

topic: Careers, Arrogant, May, Common Courtesy, Overbearing

It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune.

- L. Frank Baum

source: L. Frank Baum (2008). “7 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's "Oz" Series, Volume 1 of 2. the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, Dorothy”, p.564, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

topic: Strong, People, Facts, Strong People, No One Cares

Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.

- Marco Rubio

topic: Religious, Government, President, Overbearing

~Trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we are responsible to anybody but our kids and ourselves.~

- Brooke Shields

topic: Girl, Kids, Parenting, Overbearing

Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys and sorrows, and that about the most trifling objects; they bear no pain, but like to inflict it on others; already they are men.

- Jean de la Bruyere

source: "The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

topic: Children, Pain, Liars, Trifling, Supercilious

One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic.

- Robert Dallek

topic: Father, Writing, Character, Overbearing

A skillful commander is not overbearing. A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One who is skillful in using men puts himself below them. This is called the strength to use men. This is called matching Heaven, The highest principle of old.

- Laozi

topic: Character, Men, People, Overbearing

Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy has not disappeared; it has changed form. In the old form, women were forced to obey an overbearing husband in the privacy of an unjust marriage. In the new form, the working single mother is economically abandoned by her former husband and ignored by a patriarchal society at large.

- Arlie Russell Hochschild

topic: Mother, Husband, Acceptance, Patriarchal Society, Overbearing

Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

- James Madison

source: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.47, Coventry House Publishing

topic: Party, Rights, Government, Personal Liberty, Considerate And Caring

This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh will become part of our national dialogue about taxes and freedom. And it’s funny as hell. Author Jim Greenfield is a cross between Ayn Rand and Monty Python. If enough people read this hilarious ‘man versus state’ book, the IRS will be put out of business, which is okay with me.

- Grover Norquist

topic: Book, Men, Python, Fast Paced, Funny As Hell

Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.

- Elizabeth Bowen

topic: Passion, Roots, Clothes, Deep Roots, Touchy

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

- Lady Gaga

topic: Media, Judging, People, Celebrity Life, Overbearing

It's really about taking something inherently negative, and starting with the word loser, starting with something that's negative, and changing it into something that's positive, redefining it, but doing it in a certain way, how - like I would say when I look out at the world and you see it's dark and it's just overbearing and every day is depressed, depressed, depressed. What it took was to change my perspective a little bit. Not to change the world, to change my perspective.

- Lupe Fiasco

source: "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

topic: Dark, Perspective, Negative, Overbearing, Redefining

What about Beck?" "Backwoods Boy? Are you crazy? It'd be a threesome - me, him and his overbearing ego. Definitely doomed to failure.

- Jana Oliver

source: Jana Oliver (2011). “Soul Thief: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

topic: Crazy, Boys, Ego, Backwoods, Overbearing

It's incredibly easy as a director to be egotistical. Of course, it is because you have 200 people on set every day listening to your every word and whatever you say goes, and that can be slightly corrupting. And actually, to be a good director, you have to take ego out of it, because hopefully what you've done is surrounded yourself with brilliant people. Let them be brilliant and you just shepherd that and marshal that and hopefully guide it however you can, but definitely not to the extent that you're overbearing.

- Dan Mazer

source: Source: collider.com

topic: People, Ego, Listening, Whatever You Say, Overbearing

Year after year in Washington, budget debates seem to come down to an old, tired argument: on one side, those who want more government, regardless of the cost; on the other, those who want less government, regardless of the need....Government has a role, and an important role. Yet, too much government crowds out initiative and hard work, private charity and the private economy....Government should be active, but limited; engaged, but not overbearing.

- George W. Bush

source: Address to Joint Session of Congress, delivered 27 February 2001

topic: Hard Work, Tired, Years, Overbearing

My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Source: edsitement.neh.gov

topic: Quaker, Overbearing

It's exciting to me that Ride Along is a movie that has two African American leads, but it's even more exciting to me that it's not a movie about two African American leads. They just happen to be African American. It's a universal story. It's a story about a guy in love with a girl, and he's gotta get the approval of the overbearing, mean brother. That's a universal theme.

- Will Packer

topic: Girl, Brother, Mean, Overbearing, Universal Themes

My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.

- Macaulay Culkin

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Father, Games, Play, Mind Games, Overbearing

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?

- Emma Goldman

source: Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

topic: War, Home, Independent, Overbearing

I think I'm really feel I've done so much that I'm OK with not having everybody's attention. Sometimes it's overbearing. I used to think that I would never feel this way. Before, I used to buy all the tabloids and see if I was in them.

- Kim Kardashian

source: "Kim Kardashian: We Can't Keep Up!". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. January 2, 2011.

topic: Thinking, Attention, Done, Overbearing

Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.

- Walter Kirn

source: Walter Kirn (2005). “Mission to America: A Novel”, Random House LLC

topic: Way, Honest, Accusing, Overbearing

The educational aspect of art shows has become overbearing: some of exhibits can leave you bleary from trying to read the walls. Presumably a piece of art is timeless and it can say something to us. You are taking away the right of art to talk for itself.

- John Updike

topic: Art, Wall, Educational, Overbearing

I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.

- Clive Owen

topic: Strong, Powerful, Mean, Overbearing

Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.

- Rosemary Mahoney

topic: Sight, Perception, Slick, Overbearing

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

- Aristotle

topic: May, Way, Wealth, Insolent, Tainted

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

- Mark Twain

source: Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain's Aquarium: The Samuel Clemens-Angelfish Correspondence, 1905-1910”, p.16, University of Georgia Press

topic: Children, Two, Compliment, Insolent, Overbearing

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

- Sitting Bull

topic: Mind, Disease, Soil, Overbearing