Quotes About Overpowering Someone

#1. What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child? - Author: Delmore Schwartz

#2. Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people. - Author: George Blake

#3. You look at me and tell me you think you're some goddamn obligation to me. You look at me and tell me that we're pretending when the connection between us is the most tangible, overpowering thing I've ever felt in my life. If this is pretending, then I damn sure don't want to know what reality is. - Author: Maya Banks

#4. As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude. - Author: Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#5. Personal faintness, and an overpowering personal candour, were the distinguishing features of Mrs Billickin's organization. She came languishing out from her own exclusive back parlour, with the air of having been expressly brought-to for the purpose, from an accumulation of several swoons. - Author: Charles Dickens

#6. He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut her eyes against it as if she could hide in the darkness. He murmured and gathered her against him. - Author: Cassandra Clare

#7. Iman is to believe, even when an overpowering tide of evil surrounds you. - Author: Anwar Al-Awlaki

#8. I could almost taste the thick, mouth-watering fog of manly power that seeped from his pores, smothering me beneath it. Just being near him filled me with an overpowering sense of intimidation, excitement, and nervous surrender all rolled into one general package of an amazing turn-on. - Author: Johnny Stone

#9. She just shook her head and pulled out a small bottle of some random pop star's signature perfume, spritzing me with the sickly-sweet smell.
"Oh, come on Ash, that smells like a unicorn fart," I cried, recoiling at the overpowering, candylike smell. - Author: Cara Lynn Shultz

#10. Concocting a good guest list is like seasoning a gourmet sauce. Too many similar ingredients and it's bland. Too much variety in the seasoning and the result may be overpowering. - Author: Sheila Ostrander

#11. I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering. - Author: Iggy Azalea

#12. Love was such a complex emotion, so overpowering and all-consuming. Love conquered all, the old saying went. - Author: Barbara Delinsky

#13. On the fragrance side, I think it's important that it's not overpowering, a fragrance on a man or a woman. I think it's important to see the person before you smell them. Less is more. - Author: David Beckham

#14. She tried to ignore that, this close to the man, he had the overpowering chemical scent of a manly shower gel. The sort that normally came in a black bottle and was called something like SHOCK, or EXCITE, or BLUNT TRAUMA. - Author: Maggie Stiefvater

#15. As long as one was an integral part of that world, unaware of the possibilities and responsibilities of individual action, one did not need to be afraid of it. When one has become an individual , one stands alone and faces the world in all its perilous and overpowering aspects. - Author: Erich Fromm

#16. In our age, the problems that needs to be solved are growing in number and business of life is overpowering - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#17. When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey. - Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#18. Your mother formed an incorrect opinion of you and, naturally, you agreed with her. Children always think their parents are right. But in this case, your mother was entirely wrong. Think about it. Your mother is an overpowering individual, - Author: Fannie Flagg

#19. I shall not be alive a half decade hence," said Seldon, "and yet it is of overpowering concern to me. Call it idealism. Call it an identification of myself with that mystical generalization to which we refer by the term, 'man. - Author: Isaac Asimov

#20. But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn. - Author: Joseph Needham

#21. A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. I know a man
He came from my home town
He wore his passion for his woman
Like a thorny crown
He said Dolores
I live in fear
My love for you's so overpowering
I'm afraid that I will disappear - Author: Paul Simon

#23. The course of George St. Leger Grenfell's life was a continuing act of violence against the sanctities of Victorian life, and especially against its inmost essence, the family. And indeed, the large Grenfell family was an overpowering aggregation, even by the ample Victorian standard. - Author: Stephen Z. Starr

#24. If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene. - Author: Phillip C. McGraw

#25. It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and color, and the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda. - Author: John Steinbeck

#26. In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey. - Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#27. My life, like most people's, has been negatively affected by cancer, and the thought of my young children living in an age where this is no longer humanity's No. 1 health fear was simply overpowering. - Author: Shane Smith

#28. Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills - Author: Kenneth Eade

#29. Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge. - Author: Al-Ghazali

#30. One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters. - Author: Lawrence Welk