Overreaction Quotes

“It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.”
― Amy Poehler

“Nervous people tend to overreact.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

“[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about--was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.”
― Adam Gopnik

“The Tausennigan Ob'enn warlords look like cuddly teddy-bears?"

"Yes, they do, and they'd cheerfully exterminate your entire race for making that observation!"

"I guess that explains their rich military history, then.”
― Howard Tayler, The Tub of Happiness

“When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“July 15, 1991

Nita: My mother was a paragon of our neighborhood, People always come up to us with hugs, saying "You have the most wonderful mother." l'd think. “Don't you see what's going on in this house?” To this day, if somehow even in jest raises their hand to me, I will do this (raises hands to protect face and cowers) I cringe. Then they look at me like, what's your probem? You don't get that from a great childhood.”
― Sarah E. Olson, Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder

“Ada orang bilang bahwa cinta pasti dapat menyelesaikan segala problema yang ada.
Padahal mungkin hanya dengan suguhan tulus kopi nikmat di pagi hari sudah cukup mengatasinya.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Peace is not only the absence of war, but also a way of seeing the world, and the choices we make are how we express and manifest that vision of the world.”
― Max Strom

“She knew that nothing was ever as overwhelming or final as he seemed to think - that if he would wait, instead of shouting, there'd be less to shout over in the end.”
― Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

“Do you know how long I was waiting at the airport? Assuming someone in my family would come and get me? Looking at all the cars driving past, and none of them for me?” - J.J.
“Uh . . . ,” Rodney said. “Did you tell anyone to pick you up at the airport?”
“Of course I did!” J.J. exploded. “Do you think I would have just . . . just . . .” He trailed off, his expression changing from angry to thoughtful. “Actually, let me check one thing,” he said,
pulling his phone out of his pocket and scrolling through it. “Huh,” he said after a moment. “You know, looks like that e-mail never made it out of drafts. Whoopsie.” He put his phone back in his pocket. “So hi!” He strode over to us, now smiling. “How’s it going, family?”
― Morgan Matson, Save the Date

“By mastering the slow art of nonreaction, we transform conflict into an opportunity for maturation. We learn to regulate our emotions, communicate far more effectively, and build stronger, more harmonious relationships.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Society's revenge matched its fright.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

“Prior to implicit healing, our protectors are responding to the magnitude of pain they need to sequester. It is as though they are facing mainly inward to keep track of the suffering there while devoting just enough resources to the outside world to modulate the degree of protection needed according to the emerging moment. That is why our responses can sometimes look wildly out of proportion to those only seeing our outer circumstances. As we heal, there is less need for protection from implicit wounds, so more of our protective resources can be devoted to the needs of the current moment.”
― Bonnie Badenoch

“Don’t kid yourself, Professor. The powerful don’t think things over. They just react. It’s all they know.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“... campus administrators were modeling distorted thinking. Two categories of First Amendment cases on campus encourage this kind of thinking quite directly: overreaction and overregulation.”
― Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

“The police do not wait for someone to shoot at them before they shoot their victim.”
― Steven Magee

“The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting.”
― William K. Wolfrum

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