Overpowering Quotes

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Meditation is the art of living with yourself. It is nothing else than that, simply that: the art of being joyously alone. A meditator can… — Rajneesh
Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge. — Al-Ghazali
Iman is to believe, even when an overpowering tide of evil surrounds you. — Anwar al-Awlaki
The candle flame is too hot. It flickers and dances in the over-warm breeze, a breeze that brings no respite from the heat. Soft gossamer… — E. L. James
When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2) decreasing the motivation… — J. Richard Hackman
Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love. — R. Lee Ermey
There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire… — Eric Hoffer
What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering… — Delmore Schwartz
The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. — Michael Shermer
Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against… — Clarence Darrow
There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It's my experience that you first feel the impulse to write in your chest. It's like falling in love, only more so. It feels like… — Carolyn See
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for her poetry. Probably… — Virginia Woolf
There's a kind of bad that gets so overpowering you can't even talk about it. — Taylor Swift
A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave his… — Joshua Waitzkin
It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and… — John Steinbeck
Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering. — Sylvia Plath
My life, like most people's, has been negatively affected by cancer, and the thought of my young children living in an age where this is… — Shane Smith

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