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People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing. — Guy Browning

Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. In your case, the latter. — Tarryn Fisher

A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors. — Samuel Freeman Miller

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing. — Paul Harris

I quickly turned my thoughts away from my mother's overbearing prudence before I might accidentally see reason in it. — William Ritter

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that. — Bono

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

There is a fine line between overbearing accountability and an allowance for mistakes. — Miles Anthony Smith

What about Beck?"
"Backwoods Boy? Are you crazy? It'd be a threesome - me, him and his overbearing ego. Definitely doomed to failure. — Jana Oliver

Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet. — Maggie Stiefvater

You bastard, he thought, almost affectionately, watching the minuscule protoplasm fluttering on the slide. You dirty little bastard. — Richard Matheson

Derek's. Lucas'. Ben's. It's beyond me what I must do to make them realize that I'm neither object nor possession. I don't belong to any of them. — Bella Forrest

Syracuse was again ruled by Dionysuis II,
the former young philosopher king was now an overbearing and unjust Tyrant. — Daniel Peter Buckley

Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing. — Margaret Atwood

I wasn't an overbearing child. But I was aggressive. I always managed to get what I wanted somehow. — Kristy Swanson

Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority. — Ayn Rand

He is a terrible human being. He's a shit. So don't dwell on him. Flush him out of your life. Gone. — Sophie Kinsella

The early years he had spent building Nansei were like a hurricane in his memory, a huge, overbearing wind into which every loose thing was sucked. — Ann Patchett

It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher. — Arthur Conan Doyle

It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease — Jesse Helms

We love things that are dangerous yet sexy. We love things that are powerful and wise. — Ian Somerhalder

What is life but a dream and being able to put a little bit of it to work. — Hubert Crowell

This is what I term a reduction lifestyle - reduce excessive consumption, unnecessary obligations, and overbearing clutter. When — Cristin Frank

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists. — Daisaku Ikeda

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

I was not abandoned as a child. I left. — Dane Cook

They may have been rightly overbearing in her formative years, but they also loved Roselyn enough to trust she needed dreams more than realities. — Thomm Quackenbush

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one. — Twyla Tharp

It is the reign of contemporary global capitalism which is the true Lord of Misrule. — Slavoj Zizek