Overwhelming Quotes

Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.

The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

It's highly psychological, and very beautiful, and overwhelming, and real, and trippy!

There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.

Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.

I am so thankful I had the strength and promises of a loving God to guide my choices and decisions, and to uphold me through the unbelievably dark days and times of overwhelming sorrow.

There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes!

Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.

Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

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

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

The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.

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

I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.

Do you know what chaos stands for? C-H-A-O-S stands for Critical Hate And Overwhelming Stupidity.

Personally, emotionally, I'd rather divorce myself from the world than face the heartbreak of partial success. Because partial success implies overwhelming failure.

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.

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.

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

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an overwhelming force of desperadoes!

So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting.

Change doesn't need to be overwhelming; it is not impossible.

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.

Don't get so locked in to your overwhelming schedule that you haphazardly spend your soul.

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.

Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.

The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.

…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

The moment my name was called [Africa's Footballer of the Year] was truly overwhelming and I was about to scream with joy.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols.

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

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.

The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.

It's just overwhelming just knowing your dream is here in front of you.

Our youth [with their overwhelming support of Obama] are voting for a permanent tax on their life

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

The way to keep weeds from overwhelming you is to deal with them constantly and in their early stages.

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.