Overextended Quotes & Sayings

A great and priceless thing is a new interest! How it takes possession of a man! how it clings to him, how it rides him! — Mark Twain

I have far more enthusiasm in life than I have actual energy. In my excitement, I routinely take on more that I can physically or emotionally handle, which causes me to break down in quite predictable displays of dramatic exhaustion. You will be the one burdened with the job of mopping me up every time I've overextended myself and then fallen apart. This will be unbelievably tedious. I apologize in advance. — Elizabeth Gilbert

At heart, 'Chef' is a daddy-daycare fable about an overextended man who teaches his 10-year-old son the family business and learns to love him. — Richard Corliss

The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments. — Robert D. Kaplan

...have you ever thought you knew someone--I mean really knew someone--then realized that the person you thought you knew only existed in your overextended mind... — Stephanie Verni

the prudent person neither neglects important commitments nor gets overextended. — William C. Mattison III

Their relationship isn't perfect in a lot of ways, bit it's something real. And real should probably be the goal, not perfection. Every relationship is flawed; you just have to figure out how to make it work. Keep trying. — Lindsey Leavitt

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military. — Barack Obama

Successful investors like stocks better when they're going down. When you go to a department store or a supermarket, you like to buy merchandise on sale, but it doesn't work that way in the stock market. In the stock market, people panic when stocks are going down, so they like them less when they should like them more. When prices go down, you shouldn't panic, but it's hard to control your emotions when you're overextended, when you see your net worth drop in half and you worry that you won't have enough money to pay for your kids' college. — Seth Klarman

The greatest sin in the world is to say 'I love you' without realising that God snd his angels are listening and judging. If you do not feel their presence you are not in love. You have no right to be in love. — R. Joseph Hoffmann

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar. — Lou Reed

Hell, there are probably people out there right now who consider us to be shiny people (bless their stupid, stupid hearts)and that's pretty much proof that none of our brains can be trusted to accurately measure the value of anyone, much less ourselves. — Jenny Lawson

By the way, when Oprah Winfrey is suggesting you may have overextended yourself, you need to examine your fucking life. — Tina Fey

We ourselves are the substance we withdraw to, not from, as we pull our overextended and misplaced creative energy back into our own core. — Julia Cameron

Taryn? Are you all right?" I nodded, pushing away the doubt. My fingers laced with his. "I've never been swept off my feet before. Sounds a little ... terrifying."
He laughed, and I drank in the sound. "Terrifying is not what I'm shooting for." He kissed me, his lips caressing mine over and over until my pulse was thrumming, warming my whole body. He stared into my eyes. "Breathless maybe ... — Lisa Kessler

There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one's sense of what is real. — Dan Simmons

This girl is destroying me. A girl who has spent the last year in an insane asylum. A girl who would try to shoot me dead for kissing her. A girl who ran off with another man just to get away from me. Of course this is the girl I would fall for. I close a hand over my mouth. I am losing my mind. — Tahereh Mafi

It takes time to really get to know someone. Take the time because in the early months of a relationship, both parties are in the "selling" phase. — Jeanne Phillips

I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative. — Miguel

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain. — Nick Cave

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. — V.S. Naipaul

Our military is overextended. Nine out of 10 active-duty Army divisions are either in Iraq, going to Iraq or have come back from Iraq. One way or the other, they're wrapped up in it. — John F. Kerry

I'm not at all overextended ... I'm very, very hands-on. — Mark Burnett