Success shouldn't be revenge or a way to overwhelm the naysayers. If that is your reason, you are far from being content.
Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.
A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
I had done a couple of auditions for 'Amistad' and didn't feel it was going to go any further - and then the call came about heading to Los Angeles to work with Steven Spielberg. It was surreal: exciting, challenging, overwhelming.
If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.
No question; language can free us of feeling, or almost. Maybe that's one of its functions - so we can understand the world without becoming entirely overwhelmed by it.
Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.
This overwhelming, encompassing feeling is love. It's not perfect and it's messy as hell. And it's exactly what I need.
...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while...
Some of the epidemic may overwhelm society as a physical expression of energy hysteria.
I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.
…she was so exhausted and tired, so overwhelmed, that she needed a Red Bull, to calm down and fall asleep.
People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back.They know only too well that misfortune follows in their wake.
She stayed there, in her ball dress, without strength to go to bed, overwhelmed, on a chair, without a fire, without a thought.
maybe, beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts.maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside
Beware! said the peridxis's voice in her head. Don't let It's shadowy little truth overwhelm the greater one.
I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.
In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.
When you start to live your dream, it's not quite what you thought it was because there is a lot of overwhelming stuff that comes on top of it, and you have to figure it all out.
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.
