“There is a line in everything which it is dangerous to overstep; and when it has been overstepped, there is no return.”
“When we care about people, we sometimes overstep our grounds.”
“Her eyes sparkle with a rising dampness. “I’ve seemed to overstep myself,Samuel.”
“...these are the problems of the modern U.S. combat soldier, the constant worry about overstepping the mark and an American media that delights in trying to knock us down. Which we have done nothing to deserve. Except, perhaps, love our country and everything it stands for.”
“She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.”
“Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness, and station; and hurries its victims madly on to degradation and death.”