The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle. — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Ecstasy can be painful when it's intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it's overwhelming sometimes. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's… — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control,… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I have learned that I have to focus on what I have done, as opposed to what is left to do. Otherwise,… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
I always say that when a country wins with such overwhelming might, it's bad news for that country. — Stephane Hessel Copy Share Image
The world is scary, and things are overwhelming, and there's a lot at stake. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually… — Ian K. Smith Copy Share Image
What remains unchanged is the principle, which is that we do not launch wars without overwelming reasons, and overwhelming alliances, and without… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year… — Stacey Farber Copy Share Image
I think I had only been working nine months when I got Star Trek, and it was huge. It was very overwhelming.… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit on the parking lot at the mall.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
That was sheer luck that it [being immersed into folk scene] happened when my voice began to develop. I don't know exactly… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon,… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
I think at some point [Big Pun] really wanted to be a singer as well. He would call me at 3 or… — Tony Sunshine Copy Share Image
“[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing. — Rose George Copy Share Image
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
At some times, my first go-round in the Olympics got a little overwhelming. — Eddy Alvarez Copy Share Image
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