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Quotes About Overpowering

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
~ Tanya Tucker
I had some terrific experiences in the wilderness since I wrote you last - overpowering, overwhelming, he gushed to his friend Cornel Tengel. But since then I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life. Everett Ruess
~ Jon Krakauer
If you stop painting policemen in order to paint windmills, criticism remains so overpoweringly policeman-conscious that even a windmill is seen as something with arms out, obviously directing the traffic.
~ A.A. Milne
Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.
~ Will Self
Watching Clayton Kershaw in the very first game of the 2014 season, I realized that he's not overpowering; he's deceptive. It's the sum of his parts that makes the Los Angeles Dodgers ace baseball's most successful pitcher.
~ Gabe Kapler
His feelings were too much for speech, and suddenly he broke down.
~ Joseph Conrad
And that's just how it is. During youth the desire for self-expression is so overpowering that most people end up by losing all grasp on their real selves. I was no exception. I strained to perform technical tours de force as I painted, and the resulting pictures revealed my distaste for myself. Gradually I lost confidence in my abilities, and the act of painting itself became painful for me.
~ Akira Kurosawa
Genius in a person was like weed that takes over the entire garden, that won't allow anything else to grow. (p. 251)
~ Rebecca Goldstein
I know a man He came from my home town He wore his passion for his woman Like a thorny crown He said "Dolores I live in fear My love for you's so overpowering I'm afraid that I will disappear
~ Paul Simon
My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.
~ Georgina Chapman
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.
~ Jane Austen
An emotion usually represents an amplified and energized thought pattern, and because of its often overpowering energetic charge, it is not easy initially to stay present enough to be able to watch it. It wants to take you over, and it usually succeeds unless there is enough presence in you. If you are pulled into unconscious identification with the emotion through lack of presence, which is normal, the emotion temporarily becomes "you.
~ Eckhart Tolle
An emotion usually represents an amplified and energized thought pattern, and because of its often overpowering energetic charge, it is not easy initially to stay present enough to be able to watch it. It wants to take you over, and it usually succeeds
~ Eckhart Tolle
I wished it were a tidal wave, a tsunami, a hurricane that would destroy everything and carry me away
~ Alex Flinn
Sometimes our instinct, our negative conditioning, can be overpowering. Later we regret very much what we have done. But that is no reason to give up on yourself—the buddhas, they have not given up on you. Instead, learn from your mistake and move on. Like that.
~ David Michie
life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, overpowering of the strange and weaker, suppression, severity, imposition of one's own forms, incorporation and, at the least and mildest, exploitation.
~ David R. Loy
And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world.
~ Jean Rhys
I lay sweating, shaking, doing my best to quell the overwhelming need--to extinguish the dark flame inside me. A flame that burns brighter, hotter, stronger each day. A fire so insatiable it'll consume everything in its path.
~ Alyson Noel
I actually don't wear fragrance. I always feel like I smell cheap. I guess I just haven't found one that's not overpowering or too sweet. Even when I try one of the super masculine scents, I just think, 'I don't want to smell like a man.' Besides, I like my own scent.
~ Emily Ratajkowski
It's hard to feel anything else when you're mad. Mad takes up a lot of space inside you.I didn't even have room for dessert.
~ Richard Scrimger
Ispovra?ao sam se u žbunje, a moje grcanje i stenjanje bilo je prigušeno zaglušuju?im urlikom MIG-a.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
There were piles of horse manure in the entrance court and noisome heaps of refuse that would not bear investigating on the street outside the kitchen door. In some wings the stench of chamber pots was pervasive; in others the odor was unidentifiable and indescribable, but just as overpowering.
~ Jennifer Blake
Gray Donohue was a fierce and hungry beast.His hair was wild,his eyes narrowed,his face contorted into a mask of diabolical intensity.And then that face descended on hers and his mouth claimed her in a ravenous kiss.As his cock worked in and out of her pussy,as his tongue fucked the inside of her mouth,Dillon knew this was something beyond what she was capable of,beyond what her tiny scrap of an unbeating heart could ever hold on to.
~ Laura Wright