Overwhelming Quotes - Page 19

• Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.

  Max Frisch

  Men, Deception, Encounters

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

  Arthur Koestler

  Believe, Reality, Glimpse

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• Stepping on set is always overwhelming.

  Michiel Huisman

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than a very restricted financial function. London, in that sense, is akin to the notorious upas tree, a fabulous Javanese tree so poisonous that it destroys all life for many miles around itself.

  Peter Dicken

  Cities, Tree, Kingdoms

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.467, SAGE

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• Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they're mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Sex, Thinking, Space

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is nothing in the world so dangerous, or so overwhelming as stupidity; perhaps there is no more of it now than there has been at any time, but I do not think the witless of past generations had so much power. The powers of darkness are the powers of misdirected knowledge.

  Gwethalyn Graham

  Past, Thinking, Stupidity

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• There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence-an overwhelming determination to succeed.

  Sophy Burnham

  Determination, Writing, Successful

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.51, Penguin

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• A laugh lifestyle is predicated upon our attitude toward the daily stuff of life. When those tasks seem too dull to endure, figure out a way to make them fun; get creative and entertain yourself. If the stuff of life for you right now is not dull and boring but instead painful and overwhelming, find something in the midst of the pain that makes you smile or giggle anyway. There's always something somewhere. . . even if you have to just pretend to laugh until you really do!

  Marilyn Meberg

  Pain, Attitude, Laughter

  Marilyn Meberg (2001). “The Best Devotions of Marilyn Meberg”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• Just as a child, before I ever knew what ballet was, there was something in me where I was always searching for something structured, something that was bigger than me, and something so historical that I could be a part of. I didn't find that until I stepped into the ballet world, and it was overwhelming, the feeling of being a part of something that's bigger than you.

  Misty Copeland

  Children, Ballet, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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• An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Majority, Symbols

  Sigmund freud (1975). “Gen Intro Psycho”, Pocket

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• School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

  Ivan Illich

  Education, Teaching, School

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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• I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

  Carl Sagan

  Sky, Rejection, Tiny

  Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated

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• The interactions I have are with people who are very kind and very grateful and they say very overwhelming things to me. Somebody who doesn't like what I do or doesn't understand it, then it wasn't for them.

  Rob Bell

  Grateful, People, Kind

  "Writer Talk: An Interview With Rob Bell on Writing and Creativity". Interview with Chris Dikes, thisischrisdikes.wordpress.com. September 18, 2013.

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• As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.

  Franz Liszt

  Tired, Artist, Greatness

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• It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.

  Alain de Botton

  Life, Dust, Space

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• I would say that it's quadruple what I've had when I've won major championships in the past. I've gotten faxes and phone calls from all over the world. It's been overwhelming. It's really changed my opinion of humanity.

  Greg Norman

  Past, Phones, Humanity

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• Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.

  Carole King

  Art, Ideas, Space

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• Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming inequalities... it was envy that forced them to emulate each other, not esteem.

  Alexander Theroux

  Artist, Circles, Differences

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• Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Creativity, Weight, Dimensions

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• These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East. The secret is out, There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.

  Fouad Ajami

  Country, Writing, Two

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• I am honored to be selected as Canada's flag bearer for the closing ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games. Over the past 16 days we've had some outstanding performances by Canadian athletes and it is truly overwhelming to be selected as the flag bearer amidst the most successful Canadian Olympic Winter Games team ever.

  Cindy Klassen

  Team, Athlete, Successful

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• It is somewhat perplexing that fellow Republicans would attack a popular conservative governor of a very conservative state whose overwhelming re-election proved a conservative philosophy can erase the gender gap and attract a record number of minority voters while remaining true to conservative principles.

  Karen Hughes

  Philosophy, Numbers, Gender Gap

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• Overall Bush's European trip has been an overwhelming success. Not once has he gotten separated from his group.

  David Letterman

  Success, Congratulations, Groups

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• Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Song, Heart, Waiting

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.174, Macmillan

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• What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

  Barbara Hambly

  Temptation, Wizards, Hypothesis

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