Overwhelming Quotes - Page 30

• Christians, of all people, should not be destroyers. We should treat nature with an overwhelming respect. We may cut down a tree to build a house, or to make a fire to keep the family warm. But we should not cut down the tree just to cut down the tree. We may, if necessary, bark the cork tree in order to have the use of the bark. But what we should not do is to bark the tree simply for the sake of doing so, and let it dry and stand there a dead skeleton in the wind. To do so is not to treat the tree with integrity.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Integrity, Cutting

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• It's pretty overwhelming to know that people can call up Moviefone and find out where it's playing.

  Monica Keena

  People, Knows

  "Style & Substance: Monika Keena". Interview with Farrah Weinstein, nypost.com. September 17, 2000.

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• The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of items, an I myself was one such item...the things in the world did not necessarily cause my overwhelming feelings; the feelings were inside me, beneath my skin, behind my ribs, withing my skull. They were even, to some extent, under my control.

  Annie Dillard

  Skulls, People, Feelings

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• The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Leadership, Majority, Favors

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• ...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Death, Light, Darkness

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• All the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with that overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heaven, Together, Would Be

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.5, Fig

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• A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. "I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Voice, Long

  The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 2, ch. 2 (1954)

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• In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original objective, they knew now that somehow they had done much, much more than ever they set out to do.

  Alfred Lansing

  Pride, Accomplishment, Done

  Alfred Lansing (2015). “Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage”, p.342, Basic Books

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• I think it's part of your mental health to let go of things. I think if you would have it all right there, it would be a little overwhelming. I don't know how you'd have a relationship. When you have a relationship, don't two people collude to kind of forget certain things?

  Dylan Walsh

  Letting Go, Thinking, Two

  "Dylan Walsh Talks ‘Unforgettable’ Role, Working With Poppy Montgomery". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2012.

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• A moment of grace. There rose up within me a profound sense of being loved. I felt "gathered together" and encircled by a Presence completely loving, as if I were enveloped by the music of a love song created just for me. It was not overwhelming or even emotional. Just a warm knowing that I was in God's loving embrace...centered and unified there. [Love]encounters cannot be analyzed, only shared. If you take a butterfly, Robert Frost said, and pin it down into a box, you no longer have a butterfly.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Song, Butterfly, Emotional

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• Procrastination is a common reaction to feeling overwhelmed or fear of failure. Instead of taking on too much at once and overwhelming yourself, break things down and take one small action step at a time.

  Lauren Mackler

  Procrastination, Feelings, Down And

  "8 Principles for Having Fun" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• I think if the doctor is a good doctor and has a patient's best interest in mind then he's not going to allow anything to compromise that patient's care. The bottom line is the doctor has to care for his patient. You have to have that overwhelming sense of welfare for your patient.

  Charles Teo

  Thinking, Doctors, Mind

  "Dr Charlie Teo, neurosurgeon". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 20, 2011.

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• I am long term optimistic and short term pessimistic on immigration. Long term, I'm optimistic because there's a lotta bipartisan agreement outside of Washington on immigration. There's overwhelming bipartisan agreement, number one, that we need to secure the borders. That we need to finally do something to stop illegal immigration.

  Ted Cruz

  Optimistic, Agreement, Numbers

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. July 5, 2015.

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• We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Lying, Vanity

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• I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

  Howard Gordon

  Writing, Novel, Wanted

  "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.

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• You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Single, Country, Believe

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• I don't think that anyone can prepare for raising a child. I think it's one of those jobs that is far more overwhelming than you could ever expect and far more satisfying than you can ever expect.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Jobs, Children, Thinking

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• I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Writing, People, Belief

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.294, Scholastic Inc.

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• Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.

  H. L. Mencken

  Race, Average, Punishment

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• To me writing was not a career but a necessity. And so it remains, though I am now, technically, a professional writer. The strength of this inborn desire to write has always baffled me. It is understandable that the really gifted should feel an overwhelming urge to use their gift; but a strong urge with only a slight gift seems almost a genetic mistake.

  Dervla Murphy

  Strong, Mistake, Writing

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• There's generally no good reason why others should care about most of any one artist's work. The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars.

  David Bayles

  Artist, Majority, Care

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.5, Image Continuum Press

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• The Palestinians fight for their rights and their land using stones and catapults but the Israelis retaliate with disproportional and overwhelming power by using bullets and bombs thus killing so many innocent civilians

  Bernard Membe

  Fighting, Rights, Land

  "Tanzania touts Middle East peace". Daily News (dailynews.co.tz), November 30, 2010.

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• I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

  Washington Irving

  Endurance, Fortitude, Fortune

  Washington Irving (2014). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.33, Penguin

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• Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

  Phillips Brooks

  Men, Self, Giving

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

  Arianna Huffington

  Winning, Equality, Law

  Arianna Huffington (2004). “Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People”, Miramax Books

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