Overwhelmed Quotes - Page 3

• We're living in a time of so much clutter that has allowed everyone to express themselves at any moment. We have access into people's lives like never before. It's a lot to take in and it's easy to get overwhelmed and swallowed up in it.

  Wendy Starland

  People, Moments, Easy

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sorrow, Rope, World

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• Words may be either the servants or masters. If the former they may safely guide us in the way of truth. If the latter they intoxicate the brain and lead into swamps of thought where there is no solid footing. Among the sources of those innumerable calamities which from age to age have overwhelmed mankind, may be reckoned as one of the principal, the abuse of words.

  George Horne

  Abuse, Brain, Age

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• It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

  Stephanie Mills

  Age, Doe, May

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.138, Island Press

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• Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Country, Corporations

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• Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Use, Information

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have.

  John Calvin

  Men, Scripture, Holy

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all the way, trying to swim back up the stream, longing for the shores that they have passed, clutching at anything to retard their progress, frightened by the onward rush of the strong current and in danger of being overwhelmed by the waters. Others go with the current freely, trusting themselves to the buoyancy of the water.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Strong, Fighting, Years

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1997). “Saving Graces: The Inspirational Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder”, B & H Publishing Group

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• There are so many people afraid of a task. They get so overwhelmed by the obstacles in front of them that they shy away from reaching beyond a position of safety.

  Edwin Moses

  People, Safety, Tasks

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• Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.

  Bill Hybels

  Cutting, Numbers, People

  Bill Hybels, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (1994). “Prayer: Too Busy Not to Pray”, p.11, InterVarsity Press

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• From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.

  Paul Klee

  Eye, Humble, Artist

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• You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere.

  Rob Brown

  Computer, Possibility, Blank

  "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.

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• The real focus at first is to just become a good stand-up comedian, and then when you get to a certain level, then they allow you to do other things. You feel if you're overwhelmed by something or if you're not.

  Jon Stewart

  Real, Focus, Comedian

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• If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being always protected made me more fearful, and I would later dip cautiously into the outside world, never allowing myself to be submerged completely, and always jerking back into the familiarity of my own life when my senses were overwhelmed. For years I would stand with a foot in each sphere, drawn to the exotic universe that lay on the other side of the portal, wrenched back by the warnings that sounded like alarm bells in my mind.

  Deborah Feldman

  Fear, Years, Feet

  Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Add, Infinite, Abundance

  Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1848). “The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.18

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• Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction; for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Prejudice, Conviction

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.393, Broadview Press

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• A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent for Oakland's youth) can hardly afford such social justice follies. But a pushover Democratic mayor and an overwhelmed police force have left what's left of gainfully employed Oakland taxpayers at the mercy of professional freeloaders and anti-capitalism saboteurs.

  Michelle Malkin

  Cities, Oakland, Justice

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• Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person. This one person, who strives to give the best, may be overwhelmed, busy, trying to raise many children. And even in homes with two parents, many children are essentially alone.

  Michael Gurian

  Children, Home, Two

  Michael Gurian (2010). “The Wonder of Children: Nurturing the Souls of Our Sons and Daughters”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• He will never let the trial surpass the strength He gives you, and at the very moment you think yourself overwhelmed by sorrow, He will lift you up and give you peace.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Thinking, Giving, Sorrow

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• One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.

  Eric Schlosser

  Grief, Reality, Murder Victims

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• If I've had a bad day, if I'm feeling stressed out, if I'm feeling overwhelmed - it takes it all away. It's my antidote for everything. If I feel any sort of emotional upheaval, I go for a jog and I feel better.

  Kelly Ripa

  Bad Day, Feel Better, Emotional

  "Kelly Ripa: Fab at 40". Interview with David A. Keeps, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 6, 2010.

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• The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

  Robert E. Lee

  Home, Empires, Ruins

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• I realized that performing was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company Synergy in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

  Catherine Mary Stewart

  Dancer, Gigs, Canada

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• You just have to learn to get really good at choosing your moments and making sure that your story isn't overwhelmed by the effects, and that your emotional storyline is what's driving the train.

  J.H. Wyman

  Emotional, Stories, Driving

  Source: collider.com

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• Archaeology is the study of humanity itself, and unless that attitude towards the subject is kept in mind archaeology will be overwhelmed by impossible theories or a welter of flint chips.

  Margaret Murray

  Attitude, Humanity, Mind

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