Overwhelming Quotes - Page 31

• It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body -- an overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually began to feel blessed.

  Gloria Naylor

  Blessed, Body, Spirit

  Gloria Naylor, Maxine Lavon Montgomery (2004). “Conversations with Gloria Naylor”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.

  Alan Turing

  Science, Ideas, Perception

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• The overwhelming majority of social scientists were irreligious or even anti-religious. This led them to believe that religion was a disappearing and unimportant factor in human affairs.

  Rodney Stark

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• Both at-home and working mothers can overmeet their mothering responsibilities. In order to justify their jobs, working mothers can overnurture, overconnect with, and overschedule their children into activities and classes. Similarly, some at-home mothers,... can make at- home mothering into a bigger deal than it is, over stimulating, overeducating, and overwhelming their children with purposeful attention.

  Jean Marzollo

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Jean Marzollo (1991). “Your Maternity Leave”, Poseidon Press

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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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• ...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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• 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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• 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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• That experience of being in the wild in a place where life initially began for all creatures gave me a overwhelming sense of connection.

  Jillian Hervey

  Connections, Creatures

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• New York seems very very foreign to me, like more foreign than almost anywhere in America, and almost anywhere in the world, I find it like one of the most overwhelming places.

  Robert Pattinson

  New York, America, World

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• Being a singer, being a performer, you have tricks, somehow, to calm yourself when things feel a little overwhelming. I don't do breathing exercises, per se, but I definitely have to have a sort of internal word with myself before things got completely out of hand and I fainted on the floor.

  Shirley Manson

  Exercise, Hands, Breathing

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It is very difficult to be under the microscope every moment of every day. Everything that leaves your mouth becomes this sensationalized news story, no matter what your intentions were when you first said it, so it becomes overwhelming.

  Megan Fox

  News Stories, Matter, Firsts

  "JONAH HEX Press Conference: Read or Listen to Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, Director Jimmy Hayward and Producer Andrew Lazar". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 15, 2010.

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• Loosening control of your life into Gods hands brings an overwhelming sense of peace and confidence.

  Dan Ellis

  Control Of Your Life, Hands

  "A conversation with Carolina Hurricanes goalie Dan Ellis". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. March 2013.

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• Trying to avert foreclosures, once you can't just force the banks to do it as a condition of getting aid, means that you have to put some public money into it or you have to do other things that are politically unpopular. From the macroeconomic standpoint there is overwhelming need to help people reduce what they owe so that we don't get the foreclosures and we don't get people kicked out of their homes. On the other hand, there is great resistance politically to helping people, not all of whom would be worth recipients of the help.

  Barney Frank

  Home, Mean, Hands

  "The Political Scene: Barney's Frank Opinions". Interview with Michael Guerriero, www.newyorker.com. December 9, 2011.

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• The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.

  Marc Maron

  Anxiety, Despair, World

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• My advice is: 1. Be judicious in the use of military force. 2. When military force is required, use overwhelming force. 3. Do not micromanage military leaders. 4. Ensure your battle plans will win the conflict and win the peace.

  Steve Stivers

  Military, Winning, Leader

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• It's hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it's hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

  Yann Martel

  Powerful, Potters, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I definitely find the technical aspects of post-production generally quite overwhelming.

  Jenni Olson

  Aspect, Posts, Post Production

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The Passion of Christ is the greatest and most stupendous work of Divine Love. The greatest and most overwhelming work of God's love.

  Paul of the Cross

  Passion, Christ, Divine

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• When you see what goes on in Iraq on a daily basis - more people dying in car bombings - you almost brush it aside after a while. To actually comprehend the human tragedy of these events is overwhelming. We see so many images, but there's always the sense, for Americans, that it's not in our backyard. That's another reason why the war in Bosnia was so fascinating; because it really was in Europe's backyard. It was in Europe. And they didn't do anything about it for years. It took the Americans to end that war, really. That's a shame.

  Richard Shepard

  War, Years, Europe

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Openness is the first step toward recovery... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.

  David Sheff

  Recovery, Addiction, Secret

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• Caffeine gives me hope. Sometimes, when I brew my wicked strong Irish black tea just perfect, about halfway through the mug I feel a clear and overwhelming feeling of optimism. It didn't surprise me when a study a few years ago implied that suicide was much less likely among coffee and tea drinkers.

  John Vanderslice

  Suicide, Strong, Coffee

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• In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified with influences of a more subtle kind - not the system, but the aesthetic, of his art. I am quite conscious of the fact that my Chansons madécasses are in no way Schoenbergian, but I do not know whether I ever should have been able to write them had Schoenberg never written.

  Maurice Ravel

  Art, Writing, Should Have

  "Ravel: Man and Musician". Book by Arbie Orenstein, p. 126, 1975.

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• Populism is at its essence just determined focus on helping people be able to get out of the iron grip of the corporate power that is overwhelming our economy, our environment, energy, the media, government. One big difference between real populism and what the Tea Party thing is, is that real populists understand that government has become a subsidiary of corporations. So you can't say, let's get rid of government. You need to be saying let's take over government.

  Jim Hightower

  Real, Party, Government

  "Bill Moyers Journal" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

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• The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before - which means that the scope of society's domination over the individual is immeasurably greater than ever before. Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Mean, Technology, Intellectual

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 10), 1964.

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