Quotes About Overwhelm

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.

And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

Now this was like trying to comprehend all the activity of an anthill, and read all the words in a book, and feel all the splendor of a cathedral, in one glance. Jack's mind was not equal to the demands that Cairo placed on it, and so for a long while he fixed his attention on small and near matters, as if he were a boy peering through a hollow reed.

Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.

It takes over—fear, I mean. No matter how hard you try to fight it, it takes over, crushing the life out of you.

But life in the fast lane took a toll on men who cared and it was eating Jonas one small piece at a time.

It burst out of him. Crude. But still. He couldn't think with his blood thundering in his ears and roaring through his shaft. Her hands were doing wicked, sinful things

For kilometres on end the road was totally jammed with vehicles drawn up three or four abreast - petrol tankers, ammunition trucks, teams of horses,ambulances. It was impossible to move forwards or back. Russian combat aircraft now arrived in wave after wave, and threw bombs into that unprotected, inextricable mass. This is what hell must be like.

Tenho um novo nome para a dor. - Qual é? - A Aniquiladora. Porque, quando estamos em sofrimento, nada mais pode existir. Nem o pensamento. Nem o sentimento. Apenas o impulso no sentido de fugirmos da dor. Quando é suficientemente forte, a Aniquiladora despoja-nos de tudo o que faz de nós o que somos, até sermos reduzidos a criaturas inferiores ao animais, criaturas com um só desejo e um só objectivo: a fuga.

for Murtagh to overwhelm you, Arya, and all the other spellcasters with the Varden." Eragon remembered how, both times he and Saphira had encountered Murtagh and Thorn, Murtagh's mind had felt as if it

She sighed. 'But it's not that simple, you know, really it isn't. It's not really him, you know. I mean not really the person. It's everything, it's everywhere. So where do you break out to? You're just one person and it's everywhere. So where do you break out to? I don't know, Tambu, really I don't know. So what do you do? I don't know.

There's a difference between the 'moderate' overwhelm of a great bookshop and the infinite overwhelm of the Internet.

Rischiamo di restare sommersi da un eccesso di informazioni, e la differenza tra il silenzio e il troppo rumore è davvero minima

More companies die from indigestion than starvation.

Reality in strong doses frightens.

He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and that he was committing a profanation. Moreover, he did not feel one passionate desire for this ravishing woman, whose form he felt against his heart. He was lost in love.

Facts are sometimes like a hailstorm. They bombard you; they deafen you.

Recaem sobre ela todas as nuvens pesadas, passa sobre ela o oceano todo.

This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it.

And the best way not to care was to surround yourself with noise and people.

be asphyxiated.

Sie sprach so viel, dass ihre Zuhörer davon heiser wurden.