Quotes About Overbearing

My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that.

Their [Lacadaemonian] women, it is said, were bold and masculine, overbearing to their husbands in the first place, absolute mistresses in their houses, giving their opinions about public matters freely, and speaking openly even on the most important subjects.

Massive self-confidence is boring.

Wilhelm was bombastic, overbearing, and contemptuous of what he perceived as softness in others. He described Czar Nicholas as "fit only to live in a country house and grow turnips.

Many children, most children, I should say, suffer from over-attention on the part of their parents. There is too much love, too much watching over the child.

People come and go, and I've certainly had experiences with overbearing figures and conflicts here and there, but for the most part I've found the dance community to be really supportive and I've formed some lifelong bonds, like with Ethan.

Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.

You've probably met moms like that. You say, "Yeah, I scored a goal in the soccer game last night." And she says, "Oh, that's nice. All fourteen of my children are the captains of their teams, and they make straight A's and can play the violin." And you just want to smack her.

What happened to perfectly capable kids who'd been so bombarded with help that they felt helpless to do anything on their own? Or the kids who'd been so driven at home, they'd never had to find their own drive? It couldn't be good, she thought.

I was beginning to get too producery for everyone," Paul admitted. "George Martin was the actual producer, and I was beginning to be too definite, and George [Harrison] and Ringo turned around and said, 'Look, piss off, we're grown-ups and we can do it without you fine.' People like me who don't realize when they're being very overbearing, it comes as a great surprise to be told."30

The ambassadors of so gentle a Saviour should not be overbearing, setting up themselves in the hearts of people where Christ alone should sit as in his own temple.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

It's a terrible mistake when it gets to be a contest of egos. The actor is always going to win. If a director gets into a control situation and is overbearing, it's deadly.

entre más obviamente persigas a una persona, más probable es que la ahuyentes. Demasiada atención puede ser interesante un rato, pero pronto se vuelve empalagosa, y al final es claustrofóbica y alarmante. Indica debilidad y necesidad, una combinación poco seductora.

In the end he overtalked it, like he did everything

I just find it funny and terrible: someone being very rude and overbearing over somebody who doesn't know how to deal with it. Maybe it's because I've experienced that sort of thing and I don't know how to say, 'You can't do that. You can't say that to me.'

Sí, era demasiado. Por dentro se sentía como si fuera demasiado continuamente.

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

Lester Bargus was what people liked to call 'two pounds of shit in a one-pound bag.

One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchaseable by it.

I feel as though I'm nice and that I'm down to earth, and - people like me get taken advantage of. So by being tall and outgoing, people mistake that for being overpowering, overbearing, loud, and being a bully. No, no I'm a flower.