Overwhelming Quotes

603 Overwhelming quotes by 508 unique authors

First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather,… — Julianna Baggott
God created us with an overwhelming desire to soar. Our desire to develop and use every ounce of potential He's placed in us is not… — Carol Kent
Every comrade must be brought to understand that the supreme test of the words and deeds of a Communist is whether they conform with the… — Mao Zedong
Far and away the most futile admonition Christ ever offered was when he said, 'Have no care for tomorrow. Don't worry about whether you're going… — Daniel Quinn
Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training. — Curt Sachs
Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an overwhelming, musky-barnyard, humanlike scent. The… — Dian Fossey
Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to… — Helmut Schoeck
As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn… — Martin Van Creveld
The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen… — Adam Gopnik
Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose… — Johann Lamont
The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace. — Elizabeth Prentiss
Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral… — Charles Kingsley
If you feel an overwhelming urge to act spontaneously, pull in the reins — Priscilla Shirer
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true. — H. L. Mencken
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I would be consumedin… — Rainer Maria Rilke
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a… — Winston Churchill
In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life. — John Diamond
The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately became to him… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community… — Li Peng
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our… — Jack Layton
This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid… — Amy Lowell
If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith,… — Dorothy Day

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