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Quotes About Overwhelming

All the overpowering, blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery.
~ Jane Austen
One signal conversation, which she had lingered near for ten minutes, between two woman German professors, had concerned a support group they both belonged to for people with an overwhelming compulsion to tear up their clothes and braid them into rag rugs.
~ Jane Smiley
I saw that miracles were shocking, as overwhelming as disasters
~ Janet Fitch
As we enter 2015, we are faced with overwhelming challenges. However, the dawn of 2015 also promises unlimited potential and the opportunity to begin rebuilding America.
~ Ted Yoho
When I was discovered, everything happened like dominos. I don't know how to talk about it now because it's too mindblowing. It's so unreal, and yet it's real.
~ Faye Dunaway
Someone once told me you don't know about cancer until it touches you. That's when it touched my brother, Mickey. There's nothing like it. When it touches you, it's overwhelming.
~ Ron Rivera
Once I lose control, there's no stopping me.
~ Nana Patekar
You always feel pressure to do your best, and when you know that the story revolves around you, it can become very overwhelming.
~ Lauren Ashley Carter
Still, 71.48 percent of those who voted in Ukraine did so for a renewed USSR and, although this was the lowest "yes" figure in the Soviet Union among all those who voted, it was still overwhelming. However, in Ukraine, people were asked some separate questions as well.
~ Tim Judah
Language is infinitely expansive (much like cooking) and therefore horribly overwhelming if unfiltered.
~ Timothy Ferriss
pushing in from the edges. My heart raced. A high-pitched ring pulsed in my ears. Searing pain infused my nose and head as if my sinuses had been
~ Todd Borg
I believe," he said, "in what I call the secret mainstream. Kafka was there too. Today, yes, we know Kafka was the voice of an overwhelming bureaucracy with a deep evil inside of it. Often we see these figures in the secret mainstream. I am one of them.
~ Tom Bissell
shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. the loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude
~ Oscar Wilde
Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on... The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.
~ Oscar Wilde
Si yo hubiera leído todo esto en un libro, Henry, creo que me hubiera echado a llorar. Sin embargo, ahora que me ha ocurrido a mi realmente, parece demasiado asombroso para derramar lágrimas.
~ Oscar Wilde
who can carry The incineration of a Universe?
~ Ovid
I suppose everyone has had that ghastly feeling at one time or another of being urged by some overwhelming force to do some absolutely blithering act.
~ p g wodehouse
Cuando estuve por primera vez frente al océano quedé sobrecogido. Allí entre dos grandes cerros (el Huilque y el Maule) se desarrollaba la furia del gran mar. No sólo eran las inmensas olas nevadas que se levantaban a muchos metros sobre nuestras cabezas, sino un estruendo de corazón colosal, la palpitación del universo.
~ Pablo Neruda
blitzkrieg.
~ Pat Conroy
Zijn grote gouden speer...gevuld met vuur... Werd verscheidene malen in me gestoken... Tot diep in mijn binnenste... Een zo overweldigende heerlijkheid dat je onmogelijk kon wensen dat het ophield.
~ Dan Brown
an overwhelming encounter.
~ Dan Brown
I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.
~ Daniel Handler
Beauty is highly desirable but simplicity and usefulness are the overwhelming fashion of our age. Just because it's beautiful does not mean it's useful.
~ Gerry McGovern
The evidence is truly overwhelming that disease is pluri-causal.
~ E. Cheraskin