Overreaching Quotes:

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

- George Will

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

topic: Excess, Admirable, Overreaching

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.

- Euripides

topic: Believe, Mad, Awareness, Overreaching, Flare

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

- Russ Feingold

topic: Patriotic, Government, Federal Government, Overreaching

The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping and interference, and they put restraints on government overreaching in the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. . . . These protections require, at a minimum, a neutral arbiter - a magistrate - standing between the government's endless desire for information and the citizens' desires for privacy.

- Elizabeth Holtzman

topic: Space, Rights, Government, Arbiter, Magistrates

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

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Exercise, Confusing, Roles, Overreaching

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

- Juan Ramon Jimenez

topic: Mean, Desire, Haste, Overreaching

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

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

topic: Government, Hands, Trying, Overreaching, Protect The Environment

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

- Lizz Winstead

topic: Political, Insane, Elements, Overreaching, Political Systems

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

source: Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

topic: Reality, Names, Everyday, Overreaching

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

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Appreciation, Children, Grateful, Overreaching

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

topic: Way, Film, Minutes, Overreaching

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

topic: Daughter, Mother, Roots, Leaning In, Overreaching

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

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Community, Overreaching, Imminent Death

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

- Joe Manchin

topic: Obamacare, Needs, Reaching, Overreaching

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

topic: Night, Leader, Political, Overreaching, Inauguration

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

topic: Simple, Thinking, People, Overreaching, Ghastly

With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care - expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion of gross domestic product grasped by government and dispensed by politics. The occasion is the misnamed "fiscal cliff," the proper name for which is: the Democratic Party's agenda.

- George Will

source: "A cliff of Democrats' choosing" by George Will, www.washingtonpost.com. November 28, 2012.

topic: Mistake, Party, Government, Gross Domestic Product, Overreaching

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

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

topic: Teaching, Training, Example, Overreaching

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

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

topic: Vision, Fleeting, Fancy, Overreaching, Lack Of Time