Quotes About Overwhelming

America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable.

When you shoot in a room, that's a symmetrical thing that contains you. When there's no contention, the sensation is overwhelming you. That's a challenge, to do that.

It's definitely pretty overwhelming sometimes. But I'm really lucky and grateful to have all these fans. I know I'm lucky.

She had been told of a thing that sounded like a locomotive. And that thing was a flood.

For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.

Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above. "All this. The fucking shark that eats the world.

I had found so far at Honeywell that executives and managers often made presentations far longer than necessary, overwhelming audience members with facts, figures, and commentary in an effort to preempt sharp, critical questioning.

No, what they want is to experience a passion so huge, overwhelming, powerful and irresistible that it obliterates any guilt or tension or culpability they might feel about betraying their perceived responsibilities.

My particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.

His presence was overwhelming, yet equally evident was the lithesome grace of it.

Those who have been in the grip of passion will know its suffocating strength. It shuts down all the normal senses, occludes judgement, leaves one feeling weak and fevered.

IT WAS LIKE RIDING INTO THE BLAST OF A HAIR-DRYER SET ON HOT.

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.

Do you ever feel so angry that you think you could devour the whole world and still not be satisfied?

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.

Ellen came out of the nursery from checking on Grace and said, "I love her so much it's just…" "Excruciating," supplied her mother. "I know. It doesn't really get any better. You just learn to live with it.

Looking after the baby is like taking some sort of terrifying, never-ending practical exam.

It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep...a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis.

He experienced a strange reaction to the sight, a nearly overwhelming urge to go over to her, shove her back on the bed, and take her without preliminaries. To dominate her, and force her to admit his ownership.

I like churches and Catholic symbolism, and although the art at the Vatican is overwhelming to see, I appreciated it even as an atheist.

However, there is one almost overwhelmingly common human experience I feel powerfully, and that is temptation.

sometimes an abundance of sympathy can be more overwhelming than solitude. Giles