It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.
Quotes about overwhelms (15 Quotes)
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.
As the first lady of this country and the mother of this country, this (tragedy) really overwhelms me.
They know what they're in for, and it overwhelms some of (the younger players). They've not quit, give this group credit.
Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
I think his doctrinaire approach to taxes overwhelms his appreciation of transportation needs.
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The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened.
Electronic filing in the court system is the hottest thing around. Everybody wants to do it. Users have a concept of getting rid of paper -- paper overwhelms the court. The Web site That was nothing That was a tough six months, but electronic filing is a much more difficult project, primarily because of support aspects.
Here we have 40,000 people and if we had a day or two notice we could probably get everybody out if we had to evacuate the entire city, ... Every emergency plan presupposes one thing, that there will be infrastructure to work off of, a road to drive down, some way to get a generator going to get electricity. If your city is underwater, when you reach a disaster of that magnitude it simply overwhelms any plan.
The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.
We talk to them about the impression they make on their professors, and how they should not go to their classes looking like slobs and sit in the back and fall asleep. They have to prepare themselves for what's next. None of them are going to be professional athletes, so they'd better be thinking about a bigger picture than where are we going tonight to have fun. Unfortunately, that overwhelms the thought process for a lot of them.
But we'll trade anybody, ... if a team overwhelms us.
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
In this presumption of guilt culture, which is what has come about in Washington in the last 10 or 15 years, there must be a sense of anger there and an inability to manage the facts, ... It's hard to imagine how bad it is. You sit at your desk and you know what the facts are, but you can't get them out to the public because the lawyers tell you you can't - or if you can, the noise from the presumption of guilt culture overwhelms the facts.