Overwhelmed Quotes - Page 6

• People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

  Wyndham Lewis

  People, Judgement, Prestige

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• It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Facts, Ends, Experiments

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• Christ took hold of the work of the world's saving in a larger way than it is possible for us to do, and therefore the burden of His undertaking came upon Him in a heavier, wider, and more crushing way than it can come upon us; and therefore, while it overwhelmed Him in sorrow, our smaller mission and lighter task can with entire propriety leave us buoyant and gladsome.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Crush, Friday, Sorrow

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• Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.

  Russell Baker

  People, Jogging, Serious

  "So This Is Depravity". Book by Russell Baker, 1980.

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• when people go away, or when we leave the places we love, or something we treasure goes out of our life - I have always noticed that before it happens - this leaving, this parting - when we think about it beforehand we are overwhelmed with sadness at the loss to come. ... the most unbearable sense of loss, the worst homesickness of all, so I have found, is this loss and sickness we feel beforehand, before we ever leave home.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Home, Sadness, Loss

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• The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

  Susan Sontag

  Beauty, Beautiful, Distraction

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.14, Macmillan

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• I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world -- constantly. The world or 'life' may seem to more often overwhelm the human being's capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Struggle, Thinking, Race

  Lorraine Hansberry (1972). “Les blancs: the collected last plays of Lorraine Hansberry”, Random House Inc

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• We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up.

  Timothy Geithner

  Risk, Regulation, Problem

  Timothy Geithner's speech at the House Financial Services Committee, March 26, 2009.

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• One thing I discovered is that the book world is vast. It's easy to walk around the store - even the room with literature and poetry, where I work most often - and feel overwhelmed.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Book, Rooms, Literature

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.

  Alexander Herzen

  Struggle, Play, Roles

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• ... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.

  Harold Russell

  Odds, Soul, Triumph

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• Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect yesterday with tomorrow.

  Karl Shapiro

  Yesterday, Tomorrow, Moments

  Karl Jay Shapiro, Richard O'Barry (1990). “Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts”

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• People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Feet, People, Challenges

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.

  Christopher Tolkien

  Philosophical, Impact, Creation

  "Why JRR Tolkien's Son Hates What Peter Jackson Has Done" by Devin Faraci, Birth.Movies.Death, birthmoviesdeath.com. January 9, 2013.

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• To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

  Timothy Keller

  Greatness, His Love, Wonder

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.44, Penguin

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• One of the challenges assembling the film was that gun fight went on for three and a half hours and we obviously couldn't spend three and a half hours of the film with one gun fight. It was trying to figure out the balance of how much an audience could take before they either became repulsed or desensitized or bored or just overwhelmed.

  Peter Berg

  Fighting, Gun, Bored

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.

  Joan Baez

  Kings, Reading, Thinking

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.

  Harold Feinstein

  Sweet, Pain, Cameras

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• I'm really passionate about the song Sky Spills Over. It was fun creating it in the studio and I've been overwhelmed at the response it gets when we perform it live every night. My son Ryan is a really talented filmmaker so I always enjoy working with him on a project. But what made this project even more special was that 3 of my own grandkids were in the video. This video was a lot of fun to make. I hope people enjoy it!

  Michael W. Smith

  Song, Fun, Night

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• I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Children, Book, Imagine

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• You may feel overwhelmed by your own poverty and the labors of the day. But if you decide not to wait until you have more strength and more money, and if you pray for the Holy Spirit as you go, you will, when you arrive, know what to do and how to help someone even poorer than you are.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Waiting, May, Poverty

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• To be honest, I found the 3D in 'Avatar' to be inconsistent and while ground breaking in many respects, sometimes I thought it overwhelmed the storytelling. Technology aside, I wish 'Avatar' had been more original in its storytelling.

  Mark Canton

  Technology, Wish, Honest

  "The SUNDAY FUNNIES: James Cameron Hates Piranha 3D and Taylor Lautner Lawsuit Updates" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. September 5, 2010.

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• What I was really overwhelmed with by Africa was its tremendous natural beauty; I got to go to some pretty amazing places. Every other weekend we got a day or two off and go on a safari or the natural wonders of Africa and if anyone gets the opportunity to go there, it's something you have to do in your lifetime.

  Edward Zwick

  Weekend, Opportunity, Two

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I know a lot of people talk about Seal's bicycle shorts, but it is the truth! That is what he was wearing the first time I met him and I was overwhelmed.

  Heidi Klum

  People, Firsts, Mets

  "Heidi Klum: No Regrets About Risqué Oprah Interview" by Samantha McIntyre and Oliver Jones, people.com. October 27, 2007.

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• If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. There's nothing worse than forced music. I mean, this world has enough of that right now, where it's basically McDonald's making music. 'Everybody needs another hamburger and fries.' Here's a piece of crap that nobody's gonna care about it two years.

  Corey Taylor

  Writing, Mean, Mcdonalds

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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