Overpowering Quotes
59 Overpowering quotes by 55 unique authors
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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…
— Will Self
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Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books…
— Pearl S. Buck
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Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.
— Naveen Jain
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I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person…
— Greta Scacchi
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I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels…
— Emma Watson
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One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
— Lawrence Welk
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No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's…
— Haruki Murakami
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Images cluttered the pages, but one tattoo set her nerves on edge; inky black eyes surrounded by wings likes shadows coalescing. Mine. The thought, the…
— Melissa Marr
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Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never take it for…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. Perhaps Doctor…
— Kate Chopin
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God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we…
— Sylvia Plath
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We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was…
— Ian Mcewan
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Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.
— Jane Austen
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Thomas reached out and took my hand, turned it palm up, and said, "I believe that's healing very nicely." Aunt Charlotte opened the door just…
— Caroline Stevermer
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I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard…
— Natsuo Kirino
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It's a bit of the very last verse from Paradiso- Dante's Paradise. 'My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves…
— Cassandra Clare
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The urge at that moment to reach across and touch Willow--to link his fingers through hers as she rested her hand on her thigh, or…
— L.A. Weatherly
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The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we…
— R C Sproul
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He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut her eyes against…
— Cassandra Clare
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She had fallen in love with him twice. She loved him now with both loves, so overpowering it was almost unbearable.
— Laini Taylor
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Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. And calling us to share in…
— Henri Nouwen
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Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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There's no time to be modest. Reason will not work here. Without warning, I kiss Kartik. His lips, pressed firmly against mine, are a surprise.…
— Libba Bray
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Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under…
— Jon Krakauer
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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…
— Paul Simon
Who Wrote These Overpowering Quotes
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