Overstress Quotes & Sayings

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be. — Kate Smith

If life hands you lemons turn around and make grape juice then stand back and watch while everyone try's to figure out how the fuck you did it. — Emma O'Connor

You [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of looking for content. This is a great disservice to the cinema. It is like judging a novel only by the quality of its prose. I was guilty of the same sin when I first started writing for the cinema ... Now I feel that only the literary mind can help the movies out of that cul de sac into which they have been driven by mere technicians and artificers. — Orson Welles

Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it's hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations. — Tom Peters

We may all be a peculiar lot ... often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work ... but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square. — Vincent Price

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I crave stillness,
And yet I fear the moment
Stillness turns into boredom,
And the moment boredom
Turns into loneliness. — Chris Mc Geown

At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness. — Holly Holm

Family comes first. You're the only thing they have. — Heidi Klum

Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel toward the bright God Light and your dead grandma walking up to hug you
do you want to be hearing another radio commercial for a mega, clearance, closeout, blow-out liquidation car-stereo sale? — Chuck Palahniuk

A Puritan believed it was necessary to venture back to the absolute beginning of Christianity, before the church had been corrupted by centuries of laxity and abuse, to locate divine truth. — Nathaniel Philbrick

When a man's instincts are evil, repentance has a short lease and brief is his gratitude towards those who have done him good. — Khuswant Singh

Suddenly his heart seemed to turn to ice and his bowels to water. — George Orwell