Overwhelming Quotes

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I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like… — Lee Ann Womack
When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6… — Helen Fisher
Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So… — Winston Churchill
Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their… — Bill Bryson
Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for… — Jasper Fforde
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and… — Abraham Lincoln
She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything,… — Milan Kundera
Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "Theyâ€™re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and… — Frank Herbert
I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over. — Henrik Ibsen
I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the… — Sheldon Vanauken
When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds… — Terry Pratchett
I've never been a fan of personality-conflict burgers and identity-crisis omelets with patchouli oil. I function very well on a diet that consists of Chicken… — Tom Waits
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go… — Nicholas Sparks
It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know… — Christopher Paolini
Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always… — Haruki Murakami
One of ennui's most terribel components is the overwhelming feeling of ennui that comes over you whenever you try to explain it. — Ingmar Bergman
Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens… — Michael Pollan

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