(384 quotes found)
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
Mark Twain
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
Christopher Reeve
“Still, I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds”
Louis Nizer
“When a just cause reaches its flood tide - whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power”
Carrie Chapman Catt
“We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”
Werner von Braun
“Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.”
Marianne Moore
“The grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat; this I understood was the Yule-log, which the Squire was particular in having brought in and illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient custom.”
Washington Irving
“The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.”
Hannah Arendt
“greeted with overwhelming support, in blue (Democratic) states and in red (Republican) states.”
Cindy Sheehan
“That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon and showered her sparks over an incredulous world with no thought or care where they fell, a carbon copy of father.”
Joan Bennett
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