Overwhelmed Quotes - Page 9

• I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.

  Randy Moss

  Stars, Organization, England

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• Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

  Livy

  Humble, Greatness, Rome

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Praefatio, section 4,

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• I'll tell you that the dog whistle politics is badly missing the mark. Because, you know, as I've been speaking about it, sure, I've got some racists who come and complain about it. That happens. Right? But I have been absolutely overwhelmed - absolutely overwhelmed - by the number of everyday people who have contacted me with one simple question: what can I do to help?

  Naheed Nenshi

  Dog, Simple, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done. I wish I could say I'm an architect and planned it this way, foresaw doing all these things, but honestly, I've been lucky that things have come across my path and they've worked out well for me.

  Aisha Tyler

  Wish, Lucky, Done

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'

  Matt Groening

  Kids, Watching Tv, Looks

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• I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.

  Claire Danes

  Kids, Responsibility, Play

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• There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I'd be overwhelmed, and it's true... I can't tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

  Kurt Cobain

  Summer, Baby, Children

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• I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.

  Dave Chappelle

  Funny, Irresponsible, Felt

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• I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.

  Jo Brand

  Real, Struggle, People

  "Jo Brand: If the Tories are re-elected in 2015, it could be the end of the NHS" by Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. June 14, 2013.

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• Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.

  Jean Houston

  Enchanted

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• You know, I'm a product of my environment, gettin' into everything you know a kid my age would get into, a lot of negativity was surroundin' me. And we came, sat up and had a discussion about makin' a record, I think I was more or less overwhelmed with just that fact.

  Raekwon

  Kids, Thinking, Negativity

  Source: thequietus.com

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• One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.

  Novalis

  Block, Moving, Shadow

  Novalis, Arthur Versluis (1989). “Pollen and fragments: selected poetry and prose of Novalis”, Phanes Pr

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• We constantly feel stressed, overwhelmed and guilty.It's our own fault if we're unhappy. It means we made a bad decision.

  Renata Salecl

  Mean, Decision, Unhappy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation. I am sorry that the maenad picked on you." I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation. Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me." That's more like it.

  Charlaine Harris

  Sorry, Self, Evil

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Dead in Dixie”

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• The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat.

  Michael Pollan

  Government, Years, Two

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.91, Penguin

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• What do you mean, what's the matter with him? Nothing's the matter with him, everything's the matter with him, the same as it is with everybody else. He's just fine. He gets overwhelmed now and then, and he doesn't know how to say what he feels or means, so he cries and runs off a little, trying to find out where to go, for God's sake. Where can you go?

  William Saroyan

  Running, Mean, Trying

  William Saroyan, Leo Hamalian (1990). “Madness in the Family”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

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• He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

  Lois Lowry

  Air, Silence, Feelings

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Limits, Captains, Belated

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• People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may seem a misfortune now, and it makes things difficult, but well--it's easy to feel all the happy, simple stuff. Not that happiness is necessarily simple. But I don't think you're going to have a life like that, and I think you'll be the better for it. The difficult thing is to not be overwhelmed by the bad patches. You must not let them defeat you. You must see them as a gift--a cruel gift, but a gift nonetheless.

  Peter Cameron

  Life, Fashion, Simple

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• I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

  Louise Erdrich

  Thinking, World, Poet

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It exasperated her sometimes. The way men could be so sure of themselves. They put words together like sheds or shelves and you could stand on them they were so solid. And those feelings which overwhelmed you in the small hours turned to smoke.

  Mark Haddon

  Men, Feelings, Together

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• we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we feel overwhelmed and the kids are pushing all our buttons. we can support one another....we can be understanding of each other and easier on ourselves.

  Katrina Kenison

  Children, Kids, Self

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• She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore.

  Ian Mcewan

  Taught, Transformation, Lifetime

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• At the moment there are 1 in 8 people who have no access to clear drinking water, about a billion people worldwide, which can make you feel quite overwhelmed.

  Cate Blanchett

  Drinking, People, Water

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?

  Bell Hooks

  Sleep, Makeup, Night

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