Overreacting Quotes

“Haven’t you noticed yet, Bella, that Edward is just the
teeniest bit prone to overreaction?”
― Stephanie Meyer, Twilight

“True personal mastery is expressed in self-control and not reacting.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“And when I look back 25 years hence [after 9-11], to me, that was the first day of the 21st century. And I mean that that al Qaeda did this thing, they sent the gyroscope oscillating. And then we overreacted in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then Putin’s overreacting in Ukraine, and then October 7th happens, and then Israel responds. So what we've just seen is like this gyroscope spinning wildly out of control. And it's like before World War I, I don't want to make that comparison too tightly, but it's like things are spinning out of control. The world feels ever more dangerous.”
― David Brooks