Quotes About Being Swamped

#1. Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot.

Rex Stout

#2. The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

Eric Hoffer

#3. I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians.

Pauline Hanson

#4. A Nepali outlook, pace and philosophy had prevented us being swamped by our problems. In Nepal it was easier to take life day by day.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#5. It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.

Bryant McGill

#6. Even if you're not a parent, you have parents and you've been in those situations where there's a certain kind of goodbye - nothing this extreme exists, but I think that's what everyone holds onto, that common denominator that runs through this that everyone can understand.

Jonathan Nolan

#7. There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.

Richard Wilbur

#8. Everybody is on something these days. It's a racket. Overprescribing, masking the problem.

Keith Donohue

#9. I wondered whether water is a mirror for our darker emotions as much as it is an engine for our happiness. Water quiets all the noise, all the distractions, and connects you to your own thoughts.

Wallace J. Nichols

#10. You look what's happening all over Europe - Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed.

Donald Trump

#11. Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.

Sebastian Faulks

#12. Transform the Material.(Chuang Tzu)

Sung Yee Poon

#13. In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding, unseen power, and whenever this happens, I go with it. That's what inspiration is. You don't get it from the gods. You make it.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#14. Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed with the crime and the problems, and it could be some sinister plot.

Donald Trump

#15. The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

Hosea Ballou

#16. Learning a new language, just like opening a new window, allows you to see the world with intimacy.

Pearl Zhu

#17. Their banter was rich and comfortable, their teasing intimate and profound; their 'I love you' without the use of those startling words.

Sarah Winman

#18. What amulet is there against this disaster? What face can I summon to lay cool upon this heat?

Virginia Woolf

#19. There are no such things as curses; only people and their decisions

Yvonne Wood

#20. Did you ever notice they never take any fat hostages? You never see a guy coming out of Lebanon going: I was held hostage for seven months and I lost 175 pounds, I feel good and I look good and I learned self-discipline. That's the important thing.

Denis Leary