Top 184 Overwhelm Quotes & Sayings

There's no need to overwhelm yourself with thoughts, because you know that you're just as good or better than some of the players you're going up against.

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.

Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values.

Sure, spending most of your time with attractive men who are all catches is great... but you can imagine how all that testosterone can overwhelm a gal.

I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.

In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by a bunch of good people, pitted against an evil-producing situation. The question is, does the goodness of the people overwhelm the bad situation, or does the bad situation overwhelm the good people?

If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.

I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed.

Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.

Life is a fight. Don’t let it overwhelm you. Adapt, and combat every situation it throws at you.

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

Overwhelm is, most often, a mindset. If you think about all the things you have to do, you'll be face down on the floor. It really helps to break it down into smaller pieces.

We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely.

That's the main lesson I've learned from working in the theater: respect the dramaturgy. I don't want to overwhelm everything with music.

Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe.

Changes in clouds and rainfall can overwhelm what little effect CO2-water vapour has on temperature.

The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me in total freedom.

I don't think enough players channel the energy of the crowd. If it's done properly, and you don't let anger overwhelm and distract you, it's like a shot of adrenaline in the arm, and it gets the crowd pumped up.

A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more.

Any place where you have to deal with many social actors like a school - you have the parents, the Ministry of Education, the school board, and the teachers - you need all kinds of sets and rules. You're trying to foresee anything that can happen and everything becomes really rigid. They don't want to talk about death because they don't want to overwhelm the children, but that has already happened, so you're not going to overwhelm them more.

All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.

If I really want an unrushed life, I must underwhelm my schedule so God has room to overwhelm my soul.

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

I can be in a little bit of a state of overwhelm and panic if I don't start out being connected to grace and gratitude.

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

On Sherry: The destiny of a thousand generations is concentrated in each drop. If the cares of the world overwhelm you, only taste it, pilgrim, and you will swear that heaven is on earth.

You can let the size of the crowd, when you do Super Bowl, overwhelm you if you want, and that opening on camera is one of the most intense, awkward feelings you can ever have.

This is the Church of Jesus Christ, and He leads it. No assignment in it need ever overwhelm you if you know that and listen for the Master's voice.

Music is a mysterious phenomenon - it seems both to magically overwhelm and sublimate our suffering, but also to starkly dignify the struggles of our daily life.

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

In this dangerous world that we live in, where hatred and violence and natural disasters sometimes collide to almost overwhelm us, we each can help in some way.

I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.

Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

After years and years of accumulating papers, I keep feeling that I should give them to the library or something because they are beginning to overwhelm me.

I’ve wanted you from the moment we met, and if you think sitting next to me in your bra doesn’t overwhelm me with desire, you’re very wrong. I just don’t force myself where I’m not invited. (Bones)

Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation's economic problems. And I'm going to level with you: We don't have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this.

There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.

The deadly Coronavirus must be fought lest it overwhelm hospitals.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.

I was afraid of being judged too harshly. But I'd let those fears overwhelm me for far too long.

Computers in general, and software in particular, are much more difficult than other kinds of technology for most people to grok, and they overwhelm us with a sense of mystery.

God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.

In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still small voice.

Scientists say we use 10% of our brain. That's way too much. By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you.

I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.