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Overwhelming Quotes (page 6)

Maya Angelou quote: "I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people."
I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people. Maya Angelou
They were both overwhelmed by the sudden flatness that comes over American travellers in quiet foreign places. No stimuli worked upon them, no voices called them from without, no fragments of their own thoughts came suddenly from the minds of others. F. Scott Fitzgerald
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun. Novalis
Nicole Polizzi quote: "I never knew how much I missed pickles and pickle juice. It's..."
I never knew how much I missed pickles and pickle juice. It's like, an overwhelming feeling that I can't even explain. Nicole Polizzi
Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person. R. Buckminster Fuller
It’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it’s not so overwhelming. Nicholas Sparks
Desmond Tutu quote: "Do a little bit of good wherever you are; its those little..."
Do a little bit of good wherever you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world Desmond Tutu
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. Bertrand Russell
Jean Houston quote: "Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be..."
Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted. Jean Houston
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming. Kevyn Aucoin
God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory? Charlotte Bronte
Virginia Woolf quote: "I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and..."
I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words. Virginia Woolf
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being..."
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. Friedrich Nietzsche
And yet in her eyes there was something unreadable, something that did not want to be read, the determined blankness that in predator animals conceals hostile calculation and in prey forms part of an overwhelming effort to seem to have disappeared. Michael Chabon

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