Overwhelming Quotes - Page 24

• What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hate, Trying, Doe

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Class, People, Achievement

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• I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Crush, Might, Overwhelming Force

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• The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.

  Natalie Coughlin

  Real, Games, Pressure

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• There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning employees, the government is something to be avoided, an overwhelming, all-powerful entity whose attentions usually presage some kind of financial setback, if not complete ruin. In the grifter world, however, government is a slavish lapdog that the financial companies that will be the major players in this book use as a tool for making money.

  Matt Taibbi

  Powerful, Book, Player

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• It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean -- if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesn't have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers.

  Hugh Hefner

  Spiritual, Mean, Thinking

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• Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the Butter- fly Effect—the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York.

  James Gleick

  New York, Butterfly, Air

  Chaos prologue (1987)

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• Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Winning, Thinking, Talking

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. March 13, 2005.

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• If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

  William Greider

  Thinking, People, World

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• God has defeated Satan through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through this overwhelming victory, God has also empowered you to overcome any temptation to sin and has provided sufficient resources for you to respond biblically to any problem of life. By relying on God's power and being obedient to His Word, you can be an overcomer in any situation.

  John C. Broger

  Jesus, Temptation, Victory

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• I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

  Patti Davis

  Moving, Writing, Bedtime

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• Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.

  Robert E. Lee

  Courage, Army, Yield

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• Get honest with God, and your focus will shift from just seeing your problems - no matter how overwhelming they seem - to the grace of God.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Focus, Grace

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• The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future of mankind unless we retreat to simpler lives and even to the ways of our ancestors. What these people fail to realize is that we cannot go back to those ways and those days. Furthermore, for all our difficulties, life today is far better for more people and the possibilities for the future can be brighter than ever if we develop not only new knowledge, but a greater faith and confidence in the human mind and spirit.

  Glenn T. Seaborg

  People, Mind, Doubt

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• The idea that I would get to see this revival was almost overwhelming. And in the last decade or so, I believe we have seen this revival begin to sweep the earth. We have seen amazing moves of God in Africa Recently, I was in China and met with the underground church. I was told there are at least forty-five million Full Gospel Christians in China. I discovered a depth of prayer and integrity there that I have not felt anywhere else in the world So I believe we are seeing Wigglesworth's prophecy begin to be fulfilled. We are seeing the first stages of it.

  Lester Sumrall

  Christian, Prayer, Integrity

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• Don't get so locked in to your overwhelming schedule that you haphazardly spend your soul.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Soul, Schedules, Locked

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jan 21, 2015

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• The 'Rise, Rebel, Resist' video is a reflection of the outrage the American people are feeling at the absurd hypocrisy, and overwhelming nonsense and balderdash plaguing Washington D.C. It uses a bit of satire and a bit of wishful thinking to form this powerful amalgam of imagery that nourishes and empowers the living art of the song. Our message is clear: Either these elected officials do their job and protect the rights and lives of ALL Americans or be prepared to face the consequences.

  Otep Shamaya

  Song, Art, Jobs

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• The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions involve a continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity.

  Harold Innis

  Communication, Essentials, Elements

  "Changing Concepts of Time". Book by Harold Innis, p. 15, 1952.

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• If you are among those who believe that the U.S. has the best healthcare system in the world - despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary - it's because my fellow spinmeisters and I succeeded brilliantly at what we were paid very well to do with your premium dollars.

  Wendell Potter

  Believe, Political, Dollars

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• The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS - or by the harsh drugs sometimes used to treat them. And it can do so with remarkable safety. Indeed, marijuana is less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Weed, Pain, Cancer

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• It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Country, Men

  1849 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,'Sunday'.

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• When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.

  Krist Novoselic

  Mainstream, Bigs, Counterculture

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• The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.

  Venerable Bede

  Mother, Inspiration, Unexpected

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• I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the Earth rising in the distance over the lunar landscape - it makes us realize that we all do exist on one small globe. For from 230,000 miles away, it really is a small planet.

  Frank Borman

  Distance, Thinking, Space

  "And You Think You've Got Problems!" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2016.

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• The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Country, Clever, War

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.2211, Delphi Classics

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