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Quotes About Overstep

I think that always, as an actor, I don't want to overstep or pretend that I'm doing anything more than I'm doing.
~ Timothy Olyphant
The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.
~ Desmond Tutu
No, I mean your quandary. An iffy dimension where I'm afraid for or worried about one of my daughters, like you, where I cross a boundary and then she gets pissed.' 'So you're saying what happened is normal?' 'I think so. It's easy to overstep out of worry. It can infuriate them, though sometimes they understand later on.' I was
~ Louise Erdrich
We must know our own roles. We should also know the roles that others play, and the rules such roles follow. In this manner, social harmony is maintained. It is when we overstep our roles, or act without knowing them, that social anarchy ensues.
~ F. Sionil Jose
He was out of line
~ J.D. Robb
He'd crossed the line, man. He'd crossed it big-time.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
You are arrogant and overstep your bounds," I told him, pointing my cleaned fork at him. "I try," he said with false modesty.
~ Patricia Briggs