Best Overreaching Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To be sure, all translation is interpretation. ... Be that as it may, functional-equivalence translations, which presume that ambiguity, multivalence, and contradiction are by definition not part of the Bible, take far more creative and interpretive license than formal ones in eradicating those features. In so doing, they too often try to make the Bible into something it's not.”

Bible Translation Overreaching

Book:The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book

Source: The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book

“In the business world, beware of people who are overly friendly, personal, and overreaching, invariably they do have a hidden agenda more than a genuine business transaction at hand.”

Business Overreaching Hidden Agenda

Author:Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“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.”

Political Night Leader Events Advantage Election Mandates Inauguration Taking Advantage Overreaching

Author:Ron Fournier

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

Government Appropriate Patriotic Federal Government Resisting Overreaching

Author:Russ Feingold

“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.”

Christ Teach Teaching Honest Example Training Train Being Honest Fraud Efficiency Doing Good Pulpit Tithe Overreaching

Book:Demands of the Age on Colleges

Source: Demands of the Age on Colleges

“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.”

Way Wells Has Beens Film Felt Walks Situation Five Minutes I Realized Five Minutes Biggest Fear Overreaching

Author:Anne Hathaway

“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”

Trying Hands Bigs Government Values Economy Environment Protect Consistent Big Government Protect The Environment Overreaching

Author:Steve Forbes

“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.”

“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.”

Humans Kind Human Beings Roles Creation Exercise Confusing Empowered Dominion Idolatry Participants Overreaching

Author:Michael Sandel

“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.”

People Thinking Want Should Kind Children Use Views Technology Products Gains Instruments Grateful Edges Appreciation Be Grateful Engaging Overreaching

Author:Michael Sandel

“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.”

People Thinking Way Want Needs Ends Problem Turns Social Simple Ability Moral Century Information Needed Strategy Acquire Engineers Mechanic Calculations Ghastly Overestimate Overreaching

Author:Allen W. Wood

“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.”

Thinking World Want Needs Humans Ideas Faces Culture Community Wonder Conditions Function Unions Communicate Statements Uncertainty Human Condition Overreaching Imminent Death

Author:Justin Adams

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

Needs Reaching Obamacare Overreaching

Author:Joe Manchin

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

Excess Admirable Overreaching

Book:Statecraft as Soulcraft

Source: Statecraft as Soulcraft

“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.”

Believe Humans Loses Greater Awareness Mad Betray Cleverness Flare Overreaching

Author:Euripides

“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.”

“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.”

Source: Lean In for Graduates

“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.”

Has Beens Vision Talent Projects Adults Dues Fancy Abandon Fleeting Inclination Patchwork Lack Of Time Overreaching

Book:The Goodbye Quilt

Source: The Goodbye Quilt

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

Political Elements Court Supreme Insane Supreme Court Flawed Extremist Political Systems Overreaching

Author:Lizz Winstead

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

Mean Life Is Desire Time Right Time Haste Assassins Overreaching

Author:Juan Ramon Jimenez