Overwhelming Quotes - Page 10

• There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.

  Kate Moss

  Realizing

  "Kate Moss: Enduring Style". Interview with Madeline Rudin, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 21, 2014.

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• The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

  Idina Menzel

  Musician, Incredibles, Intensity

  "Idina Menzel: Powerhouse performer is getting comfy". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. June 3, 2012.

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• I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to.

  Thabo Mbeki

  School, Views, People

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• The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

  Hannah Arendt

  Odds, Law, Miracle

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.178, University of Chicago Press

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• We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.

  George C. Marshall

  Determination, Military, Struggle

  "The Papers of George Catlett Marshall" by the George C. Marshall Foundation, Vol. 3, 1991.

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• In doing the research, I found myself consumed by a single, overwhelming question, as relevant today as it was seventy years ago: When would I, as a wife and mother, risk my life - and more importantly, my child's life - to save a stranger? That question is at the very heart of The Nightingale. I hope that everyone who reads the novel will ask themselves the question.

  Megan Chance

  Mother, Children, Heart

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• The story of James Delaney is also someone who very deliberately presents himself as an individual and plays nations against each other, plays the East India against the Crown, all of those sort of overwhelming concepts that ran the world at the time.

  Steven Knight

  Play, India, East

  Source: deadline.com

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• Now, in practice, in daily social interactions, etc., there may be all kinds of biases and prejudices that are unspoken, that people aren't aware of, that affect who's hired, and who gets loans, and how kids are treated in school. But it's a powerful thing if you have on your side an idea that the overwhelming majority of people believe in because that's how you can build a consensus that's lasting.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Believe, School

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• When you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and states, and things like that, slavery was to their benefit. To oppose it didn't make any sense at all on a rational basis. But on a rights basis, on a principle basis, it made obvious, overwhelming sense.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Class, White

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• Sometimes it's a little overwhelming to take on other people's stories, that's just the kind of person I am, maybe I'm empathetic to a fault, I internalize a lot, so it can be a bit hard sometimes, but I understand that that's what they need, and if I can do it, then I'll do it, but if I can't, then I'll try to take a knee.

  Frank Iero

  People, Trying, Littles

  Source: indientry.com

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• The Pashtuns feel discriminated against by the Americans because they supported the Taliban and the war is still going on in their region with continued U.S. bombing. They are also disgruntled at the overwhelming power of their ethnic rivals the Tajiks, who dominate the security forces in Kabul and control the key levers of political power. Although Karzai is a Pashtun also, many Pashtuns consider him a hostage to the Tajiks and Americans.

  Ahmed Rashid

  War, Keys, Political

  Source: progressive.org

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• I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.

  Steve Young

  Real, Kids, People

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom - it was almost overwhelming.

  Al Pacino

  Real, Careers, Stardom

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• Creationists and Holocaust deniers are both very similar - both are denying what is a perfectly manifest fact. In the case of Holocaust deniers it's more recent history, but in both cases the evidence - in favour of the Holocaust and evolution - is simply overwhelming. That doesn't mean they are morally or politically equivalent. But they are equivalent in denying history.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Holocaust, Facts

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The idea—the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one second—is huge and overwhelming, makes my legs go tingly and my hands feel numb.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hands, Ideas, Legs

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.69, Harper Collins

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• Blushing is the most peculiar and the most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion, but it would require an overwhelming amount of evidence to make us believe that any animal could blush.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Passion, Animal

  "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals: the Evolution".

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• I don’t like you in danger. When a man finds the only person of worth to him, that one person who matters more than anything and makes everything he’s ever seen or done or gone through worthwhile, believe me, Rikki, the urge to protect her is overwhelming. If that bothers you, then I’m sorry, because it’s going to be happening over and over throughout our years together.

  Christine Feehan

  Sorry, Believe, Men

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Water Bound”, p.269, Penguin

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• I feel an overwhelming rush of sadness... I'm just struck with a sense of time passing so quickly, rushing forward. One day I'll wake up and my whole life will be behind me, and it will seem to have gone as quickly as a dream.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dream, Sadness, Rushing

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.221, Hachette UK

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• A sea of red lights, and I slow down. My job now is to gather everyone together and tell them we have to let her go. I won't tell anyone over the phone, because I didn't like hearing the news from the doctor that way. I have maybe a week to handle the arrangements, as the doctor said, but the arrangements are overwhelming. How do I learn how to run a family? How do I say goodbye to someone I love so much that I've forgotten just how much I love her?

  Kaui Hart Hemmings

  Goodbye, Running, Jobs

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• The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this wing. He's clearly obsessed with Iraq. He has to be because the overwhelming majority of the people of Britain oppose a military action. I've never known a situation like it.

  John Pilger

  Strong, Military, Party

  Source: progressive.org

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• 'I am insecure' means: I can't cope on my own. The odds are overwhelming. I can't resist them on my own. I need us to join forces, stand shoulder to shoulder, march hand in hand.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Mean, Insecure, Odds

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Feelings, Stones, Fool

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1981). “Don Quixote”, Signet Classics

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• There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Sweet, Heart

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• It's highly psychological, and very beautiful, and overwhelming, and real, and trippy!

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, Real, Meditation

  "Russell Brand: 'It's irrelevant what other people think of you'' by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2013.

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• I love myspace and sites like that, cause its allowed me to stay connected to my fans. The personal connection remains the same, but as I've grown, it never gets to be too overwhelming. It allows the artist to be as involved as they want to be.

  Tristan Prettyman

  Artist, Connections, Fans

  Source: www.roomthirteen.com

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