Overreacts Quotes & Sayings

You know what? I did! I impressed myself just making it. — Brett Hull

The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges. — Wallace Smith Broecker

Modern sovereignty, whether expressed through killing in battle or the torture of suspects, brings together the desire to build up and the desire to destroy, to let Aid Agencies offer charity (in its original meaning of "love") while the military offers death. The two are intrinsically connected. — Talal Asad

The right to criticize must be earned, even if the advice is constructive in nature. — James Dobson

The press is our immune system. If it overreacts to everything, we eventually get sicker. — Jon Stewart

While we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to affect historical outcomes in Eurasia, we are curiously passive about what is happening to a country with which we share a long land border, that verges on disorder, and whose population is close to double that of Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Surely, — Robert D. Kaplan

Stab one or two healers, and everyone overreacts. — Melissa Marr

!Do you realise what is the eternal precondition of tragedy? The existence of ideals which are considered more valuable than human life. [ ... ] Thy drive you to your death because presumably there is something greater than your life. War can only exist in a world of tragedy. [ ... ] The age of tragedy can be ended any by the revolt of frivolity. [ ... ] Frivolity is a radical diet for weight-reduction. things will lose ninety percent of their meaning and will become light. In such a weightless environment fanaticism will disappear. War will become impossible. — Milan Kundera

Take time to love and be loved, for it is the greatest gift of life. — Pravin Agarwal

The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low. — Robert Haugen