Overflow Quotes

121 quotes by 105 authors

Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with… — Jodi Picoult
The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active,… — Martin Luther
WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown… — Thomas Hardy
The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room,… — J D Salinger
What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state… — Alexandre Dumas
If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your… — Mother Teresa
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will… — Alexandre Dumas
History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has… — Wendell Berry
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment,… — C.S. Lewis
Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them. — Dale Carnegie
Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest… — William Jennings Bryan
I opened my eyes And looked up at the rain, And it dripped in my head And flowed into my brain, And all that I… — Shel Silverstein
If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses. — Dejan Stojanovic
Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you… — Hilary Mantel
[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure… — Gustave Flaubert
I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated… — William Wordsworth
Celebration never need depend on outside circumstances. We need not wait for a special holiday or a formal occasion, nor a sunny and cloudless day.… — Rajneesh
Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in… — Sherwood Anderson
During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon… — Luanne Rice
Some of the overflow audience actually sat on the stage. — Benny Goodman

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