Overwhelmed Quotes

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature

I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

Don’t be overwhelmed . . . take it one day and one prayer at a time.

Awe is the best drug in the world

Sometimes when we get overwhelmed we forget how big God is.

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.

If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.

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.

The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest.

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.

You can't change in your own power. If you feel overwhelmed by something bigger than you, let the one who is bigger than all things be the power you need in your weakness.

Being part of what I call the "click" generation - where everything has to be fast and revolutionary and you just want more, and it's about likes and consuming - I want to bring new things to the table. A lot of designers say they're scared or overwhelmed because everything moves so quickly now. I think it would be scarier if it was too slow. I want to go fast.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.

I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.

Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.

That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy.

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.

Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.

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.

If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening.

I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.

We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.

Consumers presented with six choices on an item were twice as likely to buy as consumers overwhelmed with 24 varieties of the same item.

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.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you.

When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.

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.

When I feel myself getting overwhelmed, I take a deep breath and eat a piece of chocolate.

When we pray, it's the Holy Spirit Who makes the divine presence real to our spirits, and then we seem to 'feel close' to a living God. We are spiritually overwhelmed by divine glory.

I want the viewer to be overwhelmed. I want the space to feel like it is caving in on the viewer and that they are forcibly entering the world of my paintings. I want there to be a feeling of overpowering decadence to the work, that is almost too much to take. I don't want them to be subtle.

I know a lot of people talk about Seal's bicycle shorts, but it is the truth! That is what he was wearing the first time I met him and I was overwhelmed.

I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

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.

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.

[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.

Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options.