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Quotes About Overflow

If wishes were teardrops the world would flood.
~ Greg Keyes
I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard-of songs. Time and again I, too, have felt so full of luminous torrents that I could burst-burst with forms much more beautiful than those which are put up in frames and sold for a stinking fortune. And I, too, said nothing, showed nothing; I didn't open my mouth, I didn't repaint my half of the world. I was ashamed. I was afraid, and I swallowed my shame and my fear. I said to myself: You are mad!
~ Helene Cixous
I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard-of songs
~ Helene Cixous
supererogation.
~ James Joyce
When it rains cats, it pours kittens too
~ James Patterson
relationship with God and find joy in him, the more our evangelism will be enthusiastic and infectious. It will stop being an awkward exercise imposed on conversation as an act of duty. Instead, as an overflow of full hearts, we will speak enthusiastically of the One we love. Instead of being like nearly empty toothpaste tubes, we'll become champagne bottles, waiting to explode, fizzing and bubbling over.
~ Tim Chester
I have gazed so much on beauty that my eyes overflow with it.
~ Constantine P. Cavafy
You know what a blivet is? What. A blivet is ten pounds of shit in a five pound sack.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them.
~ Dale Carnegie
History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings.
~ Wendell Berry
When you recognize the many types of abundance in your life, more abundance will flow to you through all levels of your life and amongst all of the people in your life.
~ Cheryl Hamada
Neither was this the ordinary world of supply and demand; it was a world of abundance.
~ Len Deighton
When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.
~ Brian D. McLaren
God's Kingdom is a place of abundance where every generous act overflows its original bounds and becomes part of the unbounded grace of God at work in the world.
~ Henri Nouwen
During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature.
~ Luanne Rice
Open yourself to extreme, excessive, extravagant grace.
~ Bo Sanchez
You fill everything, you fill everything.
~ Pablo Neruda
The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.
~ William Blake
That outpouring is still on today.
~ Chris Oyakhilome
I ... overflow; my desires have invented new desire, my body knows unheard-of-songs. Time and again ... I have felt so full of luminous torrents that I could burst - burst with forms much more beautiful than those which are put up in frames and sold for a stinking fortune.
~ Helene Cixoux
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pierre's insanity consisted in the face that he did not wait, as before, for personal reasons, which he called people's merits, in order to love them, but love overflowed his heart, and loving people without reason, he discovered the unquestionable reasons for which it was worth loving them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.
~ Sholom Aleichem
Some of the overflow audience actually sat on the stage.
~ Benny Goodman