#overwhelm

That's your solution? Have a cookie?' Astrid asked. 'No, my solution is to run down to the beach and hide out until this is all over,' Sam said. 'But a cookie never hurts. ↗

— Michael Grant

#overwhelmed #sam

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. ↗

— David Deutsch

#because #contain #experimental #explanations #fail

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#children #dad #dads #engaged #full

For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so there was a military presence on the streets. It was intense. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking. ↗

— Mark Boal

#came #concrete #could #dust #guard

I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#case #deliberately #election #five #george

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#convention #dividing #divine #each #human

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#elected #environment #get #into #male

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#employments #evidence #fitness #given #high

Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling. ↗

— Michael Giles

#came #cult #five #following #grew

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing. ↗

— Howard Gordon

#always #daunting #doing #every #i