Overwhelms Quotations

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

I've certainly auditioned for big budget studio films. I don't know if it's because there's so much money involved, but a lot of times the pressure overwhelms me and engulfs me. I end up falling apart in the audition.

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On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.

But we'll trade anybody, ... if a team overwhelms us.

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.

Our ultimate desire ... was to keep this team intact. It may turn out that someone overwhelms us with an offer for Jose.

I think his doctrinaire approach to taxes overwhelms his appreciation of transportation needs.

As the first lady of this country and the mother of this country, this (tragedy) really overwhelms me.

The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened.

I'm not going to talk about it, ... I won't! It overwhelms any dialogue about the actual movie. Besides, I'm actually contractually obligated not to go into it.

(In these films) the blacks establish their worthiness only by serving white men. The screen image of the Zulu obscures and overwhelms the reality.

They know what they're in for, and it overwhelms some of (the younger players). They've not quit, give this group credit.

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.