Overwhelming Quotes - Page 22

• 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, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.

  Julianna Baggott

  Love, Average, Hands

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• 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 egotistical. He designed us to be tremendously productive and "to mount up with wings like eagles," realistically dreaming of what He can do with our potential.

  Carol Kent

  Christian, Dream, Overwhelming Desire

  Carol Kent (1990). “Secret Longings of the Heart: Overcoming Deep Disappointment and Unfulfilled Expectations”

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• Once, in a three-day taping that included several sadists, the material was so overwhelming that both the film crew and I got sick - I with a sinus infection, and the entire film crew with a flu so severe they had to delay their departure from the motel. Our immune systems had weakened, I believe, from the beating out souls had taken.

  Anna C Salter

  Believe, Taken, Sick

  Anna C. Salter (2004). “Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders : who They Are, how They Operate, and how We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children”, p.6, Basic Books

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• 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 to have something to eat. Look at the birds of the air. They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, but God takes perfect care of them. Don't you think he'll do the same for you?' In our culture the overwhelming answer to that question is, 'Hell no!' Even the most dedicated monastics saw to their sowing and reaping and gathering into barns.

  Daniel Quinn

  Thinking, Air, Perfect

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• 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

  Training, Wealth, Whole

  Curt Sachs (2008). “The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West”, p.311, Courier Corporation

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• 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 that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Stupid, Islam, Majority

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• I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Success, Faces, Tenacity

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• 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 air was suddenly rent by a high-pitched series of screams followed by the rhythmic rondo of sharp pok-pok chestbeats from a great silverbacked male obscured behind what seemed an impenetrable wall of vegetation.

  Dian Fossey

  Wall, Science, Sight

  Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 think: I might have been in his place.

  Helmut Schoeck

  Thinking, Envy, Causes

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• 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 it from a struggle into suicide.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Suicide, War, Struggle

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• The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about - was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. [...] That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.

  Adam Gopnik

  Fear, Real, Self

  "Hurricane Irene: Storm Warnings". www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2011.

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• Living under capitalism, I like learning to feel comfortable with activity that does not result in success — since non-success is the norm. Trying your best and making it is not the norm — it’s propaganda. Of course I play with notions of hype, too... The entire Comatonse website is a sarcastic hype-engine, sprawling forever, overwhelming the viewer with nothingness.

  Terre Thaemlitz

  Sarcastic, Play, Hype

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• 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 failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.

  Johann Lamont

  Country, Fighting, Overwhelming Desire

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• 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

  Grace, Needs, Conscious

  George Lewis Prentiss, Elizabeth Prentiss (1987). “The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss”

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• At some time, often when we least expect it, we all have to face overwhelming challenges. When the unthinkable happens, the lighthouse is hope. Once we find it, we must cling to it with absolute determination. When we have hope, we discover powers within ourselves we may have never known- the power to make sacrifices, to endure, to heal, and to love. Once we choose hope, everything is possible.

  Christopher Reeve

  Determination, Sacrifice, Challenges

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• In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.

  Lin Biao

  Latin, Struggle, People

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• When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

  David Bowie

  Lasts, Drag, Resorts

  The FM Observer Interview, fmobserver.com. March 4, 2016.

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• I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming despair - dreading everything. Dreading life. Empty inside, to the point of numbness. It's like there's something already dead inside. My whole being has been pulling back into that void for months. (81)

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Numbness, Wish, Despair

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Oct 29, 2012

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• You know, I might miss some of your witticisms when you’re gone, but one thing I won’t miss? Your overwhelming sense of melodrama and despair. It’s too much even for me.

  Richelle Mead

  Missing, Despair, Gone

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus Revealed”, p.51, Kensington Books

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• ONE MORE CHNCE. Words that my mother heard, more than once. Words that women debate. Whether you CAN forgive and whether you SHOULD trust. I think of all the judgment from society, friends, and family, the overwhelming consensus seeming to be that you should not grant someone who betrayed you a second chance. That you should do everything you can to keep the knife out of your back, and to protect your heart and pride. Cowards give second chances. Fools give second chances. And I am no coward, no fool.

  Emily Giffin

  Mother, Heart, Pride

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• Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits–are they our friends or our enemies? Let us put it to the vote. I propose this question to the meeting: Are rats comrades?" The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Taken, Cat

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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• maybe, beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts.maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside

  James Patterson

  Heart, True Beauty, Emotion

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• A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I craved prostitutes, base women, because they were deadly and hard and made no personal demands. Nothing was lost when they left. Yet at the same time I yearned for a gentle, good woman, despite the overwhelming price.

  Charles Bukowski

  Soul, Good Woman, Demand

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• I think love is huge, overwhelming. I think it's terrible and beautiful.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Beautiful, Love Is, Thinking

  Elizabeth Scott (2012). “Between Here and Forever”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered the most to me?

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Odds, Together

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.32, Penguin

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