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  • There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often does so in order not to suffer others' criticisms, or else does so out of a kind of vanity that wishes to make others believe that he knows how to confess his faults.

    Believe   Vanity   Self  
  • If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.

  • Rick: Can you swim? Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it. Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls for it.

  • Do us all a favor and toss your mouth overboard.

    Mouths   Favors   Toss  
    Brandon Mull (2012). “Seeds of Rebellion”, p.329, Simon and Schuster
  • So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.

    Light   Mind   Way  
    Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle, Hershel Parker (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.327, Northwestern University Press
  • Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

    Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”
  • 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.

    Mean   Long   Littles  
  • Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.

    FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Nov 27, 2012
  • However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.

    Thinking   Sea   Feet  
    Jules Verne (2013). “The Collected Works Of Jules Verne”, p.809, Simon and Schuster
  • I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.

    Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.110, Vintage Canada
  • Hire prudently, go slow and don’t go overboard.

  • Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.

  • Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way.

    Ideas   Ego   Energy  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2790, Manonmani Publishers
  • I'm very strong in who I am, I'm very happy where I am. And wherever, as you know some people go overboard with criticism, but you know what? I would say look in your mirror, and see who you are, and what did you do.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I typically go overboard when I research new projects.

  • Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water.

    Spring   Thinking   Self  
    Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.2, Ballantine Books
  • I quickly found that the American church is a difficult place to fit in if you want to live out New Testament Christianity. The goals of American Christianity are often a nice marriage, children who don't swear, and good church attendance. Taking the words of Christ literally, and seriously, is rarely considered. That's for the 'radicals' who are 'unbalanced' and who go 'overboard.' Most of us want a balanced life we can control, that is safe, and that does not involve suffering.

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

  • You don't even have to be the one praying, but if you get around somebody who really know how to pray-prayer will lift you when you've fallen, prayer will catch you when you've lost your grip, prayer will stop you from going overboard, prayer will bring you out!

  • It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it is done. In the absence of other information as to currents, that afforded by these mute little navigators is of great value.

    Time   Science   People  
    Matthew Fontaine Maury (1858). “Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts”, p.91
  • Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.

    Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”
  • There is a class of people who seem to think that if a man should fall overboard into the sea with a Bible in his pocket it would hardly be possible to drown. I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

    Fall   Men   Thinking  
  • 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.

    Swimming   Men   Nine  
    "Elements of Success". "President Garfield and education. Hiram college memorial". Book compiled by B. A. Hinsdale, p. 331, 1882.
  • We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.

    Queens   Albums   Gone  
  • A lot of people are now criticizing Attorney General John Ashcroft for his policy on detaining what he considers suspicious people. I think he's going a little overboard. Today, he arrested the entire band Foreigner.

    Thinking   People   Band  
  • I do believe the world is a pretty sad, troubled, and violent place. Maybe that's why I focus on the trouble. Even though there are good people and good things, there's also a bunch of messed up stuff. And I learned early on, you have to have some trouble in your stories. I definitely go overboard on that, but I have a lot more fun writing about the trouble.

    Fun   Believe   Writing  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Advice to expectant mothers: you must remember that when you are pregnant, you are eating for two. But you must remember that the other one of you is about the size of a golf ball, so let's not go overboard with it. I mean, a lot of pregnant women eat as though the other person they're eating for is Orson Welles.

    Mother   Mean   Golf  
  • I am very fascinated by the idea of hyperbole in subject matter as well as production. I like the idea of going overboard in producing an art piece and I like the way it brings the work away from a meditative space of reflection to a more direct, impactful tool that can compete with the mainstream. I like all these power plays, which have a lot to do with contextualization. In turn, I'm interested in creating crossovers between creative disciplines and in a way in subverting the expected role of the artist in society.

  • While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.

    Party   Pride   Garden  
    "Meet the Writers: Biography (from barnesandnoble.com)".
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