Overwhelms Quotes
57 quotes by 55 authors
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Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political mobilization…
— Thomas Homer-Dixon
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I'm a woman that's living in this world of everybody telling everyone how they should look, and what they should be eating and how people…
— Jennifer Lawrence
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There's nothing wrong with having a collection, but it becomes a problem when it overwhelms your space. When you're not displaying it properly, you're not…
— Niecy Nash
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
— Ben Jonson
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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
— William Least Heat-Moon
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Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older…
— Jack Dee
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Love is something that comes to us in life. Quietly, it overwhelms us. It is something that you cultivate. You make it happen.
— Frederick Lenz
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I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of weariness…
— John Steinbeck
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Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.
— Seneca the Elder
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The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from…
— Jamais Cascio
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Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do…
— Bruce Springsteen
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When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long…
— John Irving
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The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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...I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to myself, 'How difficult…
— Muhammad Asad
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They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he…
— Haruki Murakami
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Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me.…
— Nicholas Sparks
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A party like this isn't about the surprise factor. It's about someone going to so much trouble that it just... overwhelms you.
— Sophie Kinsella
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God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow Him to the…
— Joyce Meyer
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To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and…
— Paul Auster
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We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone…
— Steven Erikson
Who Wrote These Overwhelms Quotes
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