Quotes About Overwhelm

Most single player games put a lone character against an army that is just standing around waiting for the player to show up and defeat them.

The high demands on teams in national leagues and of course the Champions League - it's too much.

My love for my son just destroys me. I can barely even talk about it.

Every day in every way, I'm getting busier. —ROBERT CIALDINI B

The trouble with, "A place for everything and everything in its place" is that there's always more everything than places.

We've heard the content of our mental formations so many times we're sick of them.

If I wasn't dead already, I'd said I was having a heart attack.

She turns to us, acts surprised to see us, then does the bit with the back of the hand to the forehead. You're lost! You're angry! You're in the wrong school! You're in the wrong country! You're on the wrong planet!

Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

As Arianna Huffington has put it: "A world of too much data, too many choices, too many possibilities and too little time is forcing us to decide what we value."2

Architecture excites our respect to the extent that it surpasses us.

Quanto mais difícil é a nossa vida, mais podemos nos comover à imagem graciosa de uma flor. As lágrimas - se elas vêm - são uma reação não à tristeza, e sim à graciosidade da imagem. Não que precisemos nos preocupar. Pelo menos pelos próximos séculos, teremos problemas suficientes para saber que não há o menor risco de as imagens graciosas deixarem de nos comover.

The relentless onslaught of this stupefying imagery that pounds our inner landscapes flat, a carpet-bombing of the mind. The language of the world, that overwhelms us.

The air grows too warm, too quickly. I want very much for a beautiful woman to hand me a glass of very cold beer. All the atoms in the test chamber are screaming at once. The light. . . the light is taking me to pieces.

The box was beginning to feel like another person in my house, a person with too much power for the space she took up.

How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!

That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

It's only when you panic that you pull yourself under and sink

A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it's living, breathing thing and there's no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could.

Envy so thick and so black I felt like I was choking on it.

A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it's a living, breathing thing and there's no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could.

A fight is like fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it's a living, breathing thing and there's no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could." -Belly

Dizzying, this happiness.