Overboard Quotes

• A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

  Dawn Powell

  Mind, Capacity

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

  Dana Hill

  Hurt, Teenage, Years

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• I typically go overboard when I research new projects.

  Will Wright

  Research, Projects, New Projects

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• Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

  James A. Garfield

  Swimming, Men, Nine

  "Elements of Success". "President Garfield and education. Hiram college memorial". Book compiled by B. A. Hinsdale, p. 331, 1882.

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• You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal.

  Suzanne Somers

  Mean, Long, Littles

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• Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Men, Air

  Quoted in Sierra, 10 Sept. 1980

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• We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.

  Freddie Mercury

  Queens, Albums, Gone

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• You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

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• Don't go overboard in praising required behavior: 'We have only done our duty' (Luke 17:10). But do go overboard when your child confesses the truth, repents honestly, takes chances, and loves openly. Praise the developing character in your child as it emerges in active, loving, responsible behavior.

  Henry Cloud

  Children, Character, Parenting

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2009). “Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, How to Say No”, p.115, Zondervan

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• Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

  Mark Twain

  One Direction, Reform

  Mark Twain (1990). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868”, p.171, Univ of California Press

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• I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.

  David Foster Wallace

  Crush, Selfish, Simple

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: An Essay". Book by David Foster Wallace, 1997.

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• The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.

  W. H. Auden

  Mother, Heart, Sleep

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• I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt … she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him – and it was true, due to Marilyn’s superstar status – that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman – a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Real, Night, Play

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• The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.

  Thomas John Barnardo

  Sea, Way, Tomorrow

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• Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which began with nails being scattered to cause flat tyres. If the driver stopped, the car would be dismantled in 20 minutes and the parts thrown overboard [to people waiting below]. The system had turned into a kind of destructive device that could be used against people. That was the narrative.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Bridges, Cities, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I've been a straight man for so many years that from force of habit I repeat everything. I went out fishing with a fellow the other day and he fell overboard. He yelled, Help! Help! Help! so I said, Help? Help? Help? And while I was waiting for him to get his laugh, he drowned.

  George Burns

  Men, Years, Fishing

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

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• When priorities are proper, the power to endure is increased. And when internalized, those priorities will help keep you from "going overboard."

  Russell M. Nelson

  Priorities, Helping, Endure

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• Sometimes my natural instincts take over and I just go overboard.

  Bill Goldberg

  Natural Instinct, Sometimes, Instinct

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• The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

  Isabel Allende

  Pain, Children, Excess Baggage

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• Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

  Lord Byron

  Farewell, Sea, Sky

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Second”

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• The only thing I consciously avoid is playing the victim. I think women are portrayed as the victim in so many things, and I really like women with strength - although I feel now I may have gone overboard by playing so many strong, sassy women.

  Kristen Bell

  Strong, Sassy, Thinking

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. November 12, 2008.

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• Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.

  William Zinsser

  Being Yourself, Writing, Trying

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• Hire prudently, go slow and don’t go overboard.

  Lori Greiner

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• Kids nowadays...tend to go overboard [on] protein - something I believe to be totally unnecsssary...[I state in] my formula for basic good eating: Eat about one gram of protein for every two pounds of body weight.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Believe, Kids, Body Weight

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• People accuse me of going overboard preparing for my first ten million years in eternity; in my opinion, people go overboard in worrying about their last ten on earth.

  Francis Chan

  Years, People, Worry

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