Overwhelming Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• I'm obsessed with choirs, and always have been, because of that sense of overwhelming vocals.

  Florence Welch

  Choir, Obsessed, Has Beens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've since become really good at overwhelming myself.

  Dan Deacon

  Interview with Chris Martins, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

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• By outlawing Solidarity, a free trade organization to which an overwhelming majority of Polish workers and farmers belong, they have made it clear that they never had any intention of restoring one of the most elemental human rights the right to belong to a free trade union.

  Ronald Reagan

  Rights, Organization, Majority

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable. And I would vary Yeats's axiom so as to say: no man can read fully, can answer answeringly to the aesthetic, whose "nerve and blood" are at peace in sceptical rationality, are now at home in immanence and verification. We must read as if.

  George Steiner

  Home, Creativity, Men

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.264, Faber & Faber

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• It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

  Donal Logue

  Eye, Feelings, Nerves

  "Donal Logue Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How His Role Came About and His Possible Return Next Season, Plus His Experience in VIKINGS and SILENT NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 4, 2012.

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• I think that the sense of inefficacy and inevitability comes not from thinking the rich are going to have all the educational advantages. No, I think it comes from the sense that politically, the wealthy have overwhelming power in this society and there's nothing, say a lot of people, that we can do about it. That is simply wrong

  Paul Solman

  Educational, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Normally you're 21 years old and you look like Tom Cruise and you do a couple underwear commercials first and then you're a movie star. That didn't happen for me. So it was all quite overwhelming.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Stars, Couple, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down.

  Henry Rollins

  Rocks, Band, Dinosaurs

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• Unless our souls had root in soil divine We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife. The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine, Convinces me of everlasting life.

  Stefan Zweig

  Pain, Heart, Roots

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• Babbo's menu is only four pages, but it's overwhelming - there are 20 different pastas in there, a lot of stuff. There is nothing I hate more than a useless, lazy menu with only three appetizers and four entrees.

  Joe Bastianich

  Hate, Lazy, Different

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• The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of any remedy but that which I wish I could hope for - a great reduction in the amount of crime.

  Robert Peel

  Real, Mean, Numbers

  Robert Peel, George Peel (Hon.) (1853). “Sir Robert Peel: From His Private Papers”

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• What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

  Eve Arnold

  Curiosity, Needs, Digestion

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• In the face of nature's overwhelming forces, humans needed a God who would protect them from harm. When they felt that they had broken the law or committed wrongdoing, people turned to a God who would judge them on the one hand and redeem their sins on the other. In this way, purely from slef-interest, the project of creating God in our own image proceeded--and continues to proceed.

  Deepak Chopra

  Law, Creating, Hands

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• An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that he does not notice that he is saying nothing of the slightest importance about either.

  Randall Jarrell

  Writing, Life And Death, Doe

  "Ten Books", The Southern Review (p. 9), 1935.

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• I hope through The L Word to become an honorary member of the gay tribe. I cherish the thought that some young girl or woman somewhere may one night turn on the television and for the first time ever see her life represented - not as an isolated incident but as a multiplicity. Her overwhelming fear may have been that she might never find her tribe, she might never find love and now she knows that they are both out there waiting for her.

  Jennifer Beals

  Girl, Gay, Night

  Speech at L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center Women's Night, April 17, 2004.

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