George Harrison
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature"
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Overwhelmed
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H. G. Wells
Writer
"He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it."
Christopher Tolkien
Author, Editor
"The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away."
Jackie Kennedy
First Lady
"One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness."
Boris Pasternak
Poet, Novelist
"The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say."
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"I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed."
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"I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words."
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"This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features."
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"All that was clear that the profits to be had from smart people making complicated bets overwhelmed anything that could be had from servicing customers, or allocating capital to productive enterprise."
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"I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed."
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"Consumers presented with six choices on an item were twice as likely to buy as consumers overwhelmed with 24 varieties of the same item."
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"Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have."
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"I understand when u feel overwhelmed style is the 1st thing to go, but its also the 1st thing you can pick back up to get you back on track."
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"Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction; for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed."
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"If I ever find myself overwhelmed, it's only because I am overwhelmed by how much more I want to learn. That is what drives me."
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"If I feel strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion."
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"I can't have a daily routine. I feel really overwhelmed a lot of the time. I don't take much comfort in routine, but if I don't start, I could really get eaten alive by my industry."
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"People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account."
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"To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love."
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"I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with."
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"The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions."
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"You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere."
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"[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits."
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"The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time."
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"For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented."
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