#overwhelm

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day. ↗

— Antony Sher

#british #british empire #commander #completely #day

Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#barack #barack obama #choice #continue #facts

I've since become really good at overwhelming myself. ↗

— Dan Deacon

#good #i #myself #overwhelming #really

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#knowledge #life #longing #love #mankind

I had some terrific experiences in the wilderness since I wrote you last - overpowering, overwhelming," he gushed to his friend Cornel Tengel. "But since then I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life. Everett Ruess ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#nomad #overwhelmed #vagabond #vagabond-for-beauty #wanderer

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#expectations #jordan #lan #new-spring #overwhelmed

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

— Idries Shah

#enlightenment #little #must #otherwise #overwhelm

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#background #because #came #core #days

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#great qualities #humor #majority #overwhelming #overwhelming majority

The feeling of support I got was pretty overwhelming. That energy and optimism was something I had been missing and didn't even know it. ↗

— Matt Sharp

#energy #even #feeling #got #had