Overwhelming Quotes - Page 10

• Well the first time I performed, my mom was like how she is now when sees me on stage – all red, smiling from ear to ear. So I don’t want to mess up, [be]cause she’s smiling. Seeing my mom happy is kind of like an overwhelming feeling.

  Chris Brown

  Mom, Feelings, Ears

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• My interest in acting was overwhelming, but I wasn't thinking, "I'm going to California and I'm going to become a movie star." Things were different then. I lived just for the moment, and whatever happened, happened.

  Louise Fletcher

  Stars, Thinking, California

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• The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.

  Seth Klarman

  Successful, People, Majority

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• At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.

  Katrina Kenison

  Past, Nostalgia, Imperfect

  Katrina Kenison (2013). “Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• [Walking's] overwhelming advantage is that it can be done by anyone, anytime, anywhere-and it doesn't even look like exercise.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Exercise, Looks, Done

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• There's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.

  Dick Cheney

  Government, Als, Connections

  "The World; What the Bush Administration Said". www.nytimes.com. June 20, 2004.

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• For small businesses, regulatory burdens can be overwhelming.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Small Business, Burden

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• I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall building, or as if you’re being sucked down into the ocean and you can’t breathe… It’s something overwhelming and all-encompassing that fills you up, and you’re either going to explode with it, or you’re just going to disappear.

  Florence Welch

  Ocean, Tree, Sound

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• The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Biblical, Christianity, Emphasis

  Twitter post from Dec 23, 2014

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• I have such a fantastic life that I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude for it. . . . But I don't have anyone to express my gratitude to. This is a void deep inside me, a void of wanting someone to thank, and I don't see any plausible way of filling it.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Gratitude, Fantastic Life, Wanting Someone

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• I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it's silly to talk about him not existing. I don't know anyone who is a responsible historian, who is actually trained in the historical method, or anybody who is a biblical scholar who does this for a living, who gives any credence at all to any of this.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Jesus, Silly, Biblical

  "The Gospel According to Bart". Interview with David V. Barrett, "Fortean Times", 2007.

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• The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Rights, Diversity

  "Straight outta Brooklyn" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2003.

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• There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars....But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable....It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Stars, Pain

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• A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got.

  Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene

  Book, Taken, Court Judges

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• We were going to have an all-day drinking binge. Gonna ride our bikes, hang out... do naughty things. But I started feeling this overwhelming guilt.

  Jessica Simpson

  Pregnancy, Drinking, Naughty

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• I think the main thing you have to remember when going into the post-season is to stay relaxed. All of the energy and excitement can be overwhelming but the thing I'll try to relay to the younger players is just stay calm and focused.

  Holly Johnson

  Player, Thinking, Stay Calm

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• They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Cancer, Grief, Life Is

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• Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Judging, Lag, Resistance

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• An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.

  David Corbett

  Regret, Character, Pride

  "The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV". Book by David Corbett, January 29, 2013.

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• My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.

  Jean-Francois Ducis

  Sorrow, Virtue, Left

  "Hamlet". Book by Jean-Francois Ducis, 1769.

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• Such is the grace and power of baptism; not an overwhelming of the world as of old, but a purification of the sins of each individual, and a complete cleansing from all the bruises and stains of sin. And since we are double-made, I mean of body and soul, and the one part is visible, the other invisible, so the cleansing also is twofold, by water and the Spirit; the one received visibly in the body, the other concurring with it invisibly and apart from the body; the one typical, the other real and cleansing the depths.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Real, Mean, Water

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• Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism, suffering is meaningful. There is a purpose to it, and if faced rightly, it can drive us like a nail deep into the love of God and into more stability and spiritual power than you can imagine.

  Timothy Keller

  Karma, God, Meaningful

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.29, Penguin

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• People have a range of capacities to deal with overwhelming experience. Some people, some kids particularly, are able to disappear into a fantasy world, to dissociate, to pretend like it isnt happening, and are able to go on with their lives. And sometimes it comes back to haunt them.

  Bessel van der Kolk

  Kids, People, Goes On

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• Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.

  King Hussein I

  Believe, Reality, People

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• They started doing it in reality TV, where writers don't have union protections and are easy marks for getting this kind of material in there. You're less likely to find it on network prime-time series, but the creep is moving in that direction. It has become intrusive and overwhelming to us as a union of writers.

  Patric Verrone

  Moving, Reality, Unions

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