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Overwhelming nuclear strength cannot stop a guerrilla war.

John F. Kennedy

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we'll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.

Gordon B. Hinckley

While it's not state, CCS can also be overwhelming for some of the kids. You're still going against some of the best of the best.

John Ditmore

I do think there's a concern there will be an overwhelming set of choices.

Susan Rawlings

It's just been overwhelming -- the support for this.

Ron Gillett

I really can't put this into words. I love this place so much, and I love the people here so much. This is really just overwhelming.

Nic Taunton

With the overwhelming popularity of mobile phones, the time has never been better for the merging of e-commerce and wireless devices.

Jeff Jordan

The reaction has been overwhelming, and I'm just getting used to it. I think I actually, though, could get used to it for a long time.

Stephen Dunn

It's almost like the end of a trial. The arguments have been made, and we're awaiting a jury outcome about Otis. We put together a very compelling case. There was a remarkable and overwhelming argument put together for the base.

Mark Forest

It's a little overwhelming to have this kind of responsibility at my age, but I think I've handled it pretty well.

Beth Grogan

The situation can be overwhelming, ... It's important for the family to share the responsibility. It's not just one sibling's job.

Ann Douglas

The overwhelming number of people who are watching the Olympics don't watch Fox. For us to run away from it is goofy.

Preston Beckman

The first light of day today revealed what we had feared, ... The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.

Kathleen Blanco

In the big scheme of things, it's big, but not overwhelming for us. We put extra money in the budget for things like this to happen. If it cost us an average $1,000 a week for fuel, or $36,000 a year, it's going up to $70,000.

Jay Frye

Now the overwhelming fear among portfolio managers is being left behind.

Rich Bernstein

The outpouring of support we've received in Grandview has just been overwhelming. So many people offered to give their money and their time to help.

Janet Callison

We saw just overwhelming anxiety among folks about their future in the state.

Kirk Martin

For any company that has a few IT people and more than 50 or 100 computers, it isn't that overwhelming to install and manage SMS. And if you're real small, you're probably just going to install automatic updates.

Peter Pawlak

It was kind of overwhelming, really.

Sergio Aguayo

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

Nathaniel Branden

The temptation to defeat the government will be overwhelming. They know that when this issue fades, their fortunes fade with it, so sooner is better than later.

Allan Gregg

The plan is to overwhelm Washington on February 26.

Robert Greenwald

From watching the news one would think the Iraqis want us out of their country. But an overwhelming majority of Iraqis support our involvement there. Our freedom is contagious and we helped liberate them.

Jim Bunning

By an overwhelming percentage, legal immigrants don't have bad feelings toward the undocumented.

Sergio Bendixen

All governments must be prepared to deal with the infectious diseases because they could be overwhelming this year or next year, but the long-term problem is with the chronic diseases.

Robert Beaglehole

Never before have I had a student that was so unhappy with my teaching, ... The overwhelming comments on my evaluations were 'this is the best course I've ever had.'

Michael Schaffer

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

David Deutsch

The evidence was overwhelming.

Henry Morgan

Our reception has been overwhelming. The Iranian people have been extremely warm.

Alan Hale

The response has been absolutely fantastic - it has been overwhelming.

Chris Cook

I'm really excited about London and seeing everything that's there. I think it will be overwhelming.

Casey Hobbs

Enlightenment must come little by little-otherwise it would overwhelm.

Idries Shah

There was an overwhelming response.

Courtney Cunningham

The rooms, though large, are not overwhelming.

Barbara Candee

He said, 'I went to bed that night and just felt this overwhelming impression that I needed to go,'.

Kevin Bardsley

The intentions were good. Then it just became overwhelming.

Kyle Held

The real challenge lies not in debating whether disparities exist, because the evidence is overwhelming, but in developing and implementing strategies to reduce and eliminate them.

Alan Nelson

It would be awesome for him to go, but it would be so overwhelming emotionally.

Steve Stewart

We've chosen to participate in the market, not overwhelm it.

Greg Joswiak

Without a further [dollar] decline, U.S. net foreign indebtedness and the federal debt burden threaten to become overwhelming.

Jim O'neill

It would overwhelm the system.

Bruce Taylor

So far, in the two months I've been down there, the response has been overwhelming. Things couldn't be better than they are, as far as I'm concerned.

Dean Barkley

We are just astounded by the overwhelming support we've received, ... It is just one of the advantages of living in small town USA.

Dick Grove

The overwhelming majority (of the material they want redacted) was in the manuscript that was cleared for publication in September 2004.

Mark Zaid

It's always a bit overwhelming when you arrive on set and everyone's new, but you soon become a big family. I find the hardest thing about acting is that you have to say goodbye to everyone at the end of a shoot.

Nicholas Hoult

Obviously, the Alcoa earnings did weigh very heavily on the Dow ... and there is an overwhelming feeling of disappointment as we move into earnings season.

Jennifer Williams

[Writing the script] started as a way to deal with the overwhelming emotions I started having after my memories of the war were triggered by the 9/11 attacks.

Oscar Torres

The overwhelming message ... is we need to be asking more of our kids.

Kati Haycock

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

Jane Smiley

We now possess overwhelming evidence that political and military leaders endorsed interrogation methods that violate both domestic and international law.

Jameel Jaffer

The response has been overwhelming. I don't know any other word.

Amy Martin

He's over here in Europe most of the year. So we didn't know about it until we read it in the paper. It's nice. It was pretty overwhelming.

Bill Ligety

So far, everyone's doing awesome. It's different than high school, but it's not overwhelming, and I think all of us have adjusted pretty well.

Stephanie Hoyer

It's just overwhelming as far as I'm concerned.

Ben Taylor

Your response is overwhelming. Thank you!

John Gillis

The 2006 General Assembly began with an overwhelming bipartisan consensus, and public expectation, that Connecticut must dramatically improve our prospects for job creation and economic growth. This bill does just the opposite.

Bonnie Stewart

You must have overwhelming force at the point of contact, ... That can be numbers of troops, superior knowledge, intelligence or firepower.

Don Shepperd

We're prepared to share all the data that we have, ... And we'll share with them the way we analyzed it over the last few weeks and came to some overwhelming conclusions.

Jason Vines

This election appears to have suffered from very many problems. The reports have become overwhelming.

Leslie Campbell

The January trip to New Orleans was more overwhelming than the first two simply because of the density of destruction. In the New Iberia area, houses were destroyed but they were spread out over a larger area. In New Orleans, however, there was block after block of homes that had been completely gutted and other areas where it was clear the houses had been totally destroyed.

Laura Simocko

This is my first movie, so it's pretty overwhelming to see all those characters that were living in my own fevered little brain suddenly 30 feet tall.

Doug Wright

My guess is that in the clear majority of cases, perhaps the overwhelming majority of cases, after everything is shook out, abortion will remain legal at least in the earlier stages.

Stuart Taylor

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Bishop Desmond Tutu

It's kind of overwhelming. It all seemed to go by so fast.

Julie Sablik

I think her overwhelming legacy is one of having made the office of Governor General visible and engaged in a way that it certainly hadn't been in at least a generation, if not more.

John Aimers

I never had any reason to doubt his guilt. The evidence was overwhelming.

Thomas Scott

There is this overwhelming gloom about a possible strike against Iran. The confrontational mode is the only show in town.

Prince Hassan

The overwhelming empirical evidence of current residence of retirement villages is that they don't go in at early ages. The majority go in middle-to-late 70s.

Bob Stimson

This is just overwhelming to everyone. Not only is it exciting for the players, but it's exciting for the whole school. The school is decorated with signs. Everyone in the whole community is excited.

Bob Bartley

It's overwhelming, ... I feel like I've been hit by a truck all day.

Chris Myers

He found overwhelming support from the leaders of the Democratic Party, campaign organizations and staff.

David Woodruff

The evidence of the physical acts are quite overwhelming. But there are mitigating factors. He brainwashed her.

Robert Axelrod

The participation of the business and civic groups was overwhelming. The parade route was lined with spectators who weren't disappointed.

Shirley Christian

It was overwhelming. Nearly 80 percent said they wanted to incorporate into the new city.

Rhonda Wilson

The overwhelming majority of new deposits are not from the local area. It's been a cost-effective way of reaching a new marketplace.

John Hart

I think the overwhelming likelihood is that in the next Congress, you'll see even smaller majorities than we have now. And we weren't really able to get anything done in the last few years.

Ron Brownstein

Eighty percent of the time I'm OK. Twenty percent of the time, it's overwhelming.

Larry Turner

It's almost overwhelming. People have a tougher time making decisions with too much on the market.

Pat Vredevoogd

It was overwhelming. Just to make the team was huge.

Rolly Woolsey

This was the most memorable case without doubt. We had crime and murders back then. We had our share of them, but this was too much. It was overwhelming.

Delma Collins

Once again the issue of overwhelming importance is funding public education - kindergarten through graduate school.

Sen Hob Bryan

Courts continue to recognize that class actions are inappropriate in tobacco litigation because of the overwhelming number of individual issues. Medical monitoring class actions are simply no different.

William Ohlemeyer

It looks overwhelming, but it's very simple if you know the steps and ask questions. Our members are more than happy to supply the answers.

Pam Manwaring

We have 99 [different types] of vitamin C. That can be overwhelming to anybody.

Tim Hogan

The aid pouring from all across Canada has been truly overwhelming, ... Many countries are offering help, nobody more so than Canada ... You're at the top of the list and for that we will always be very grateful.

David Wilkins

We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming.

Jack Nichols

With all of their outlets and locations, they could overwhelm [competitors] and control all of the money.

Dan Ford

It's a little overwhelming actually. The day we got back they had a big party for us at our (Wisconsin) gym, and there were lots of news stations.

Morgan Hamm

I've never seen such a caring community. Anytime we run one of these funds, the response is almost overwhelming. It's one of the things that sets this community apart.

Barry Miller

It was an overwhelming success with 75 girls in attendance. The turnout well exceeded our expectations.

Charlie Ford

I haven't seen destruction like this my entire life. The nature of this devastation is completely overwhelming. It's a tremendous task to bring back neighborhoods. They need to be brought back one building at a time.

Stefanos Polyzoides

Part of what we're doing in the environmental movement is safeguarding the downsides. We don't want to see a downside that we don't anticipate overwhelming the system.

Henry Curtis

He's got to be doing it somehow. If it's not overwhelming size and strength, what is it?

Tim Ruskell

We expect waves to be up to 28 feet above normal. That would overwhelm a lot of flood defenses.

Tom Larsen

Only a couple of employees were supposed to be here. Close to our entire staff came in on their own to help clean up. We appreciate that. We've also had phone calls and community members stopping by to give us a hand. It's a little bit overwhelming.

Chris Foresta

I'm telling you now, if the facts don't change, it is the most overwhelming case for grand jury perjury I have ever seen in my life. And what am I going to do?

Lindsey Graham

[The response, for the most part, has been overwhelming, Burrows said. Strangers have treated her like family.] I don't mean cordial, ... I mean genuine concern.

Ray Burrows

People just came in throngs and stood around. It was very overwhelming for my co-stars.

Aishwarya Rai

The frequent fliers who make up the overwhelming majority of all travel will be the ones most likely to enroll.

Charles Barclay

Overall Bush's European trip has been an overwhelming success. Not once has he gotten separated from his group.

David Letterman

We're a little disappointed in the subscriber numbers at DirecTV, but it's not something to slit your throat over, ... If you look at the other numbers associated with the company, they overwhelm the subscriber numbers.

Jack Shaw

Our fans are sophisticated enough to know that the overwhelming majority of players are excellent people both on and off the field.

Brian Mccarthy

She is a working mother, she works hard to provide for her son and herself, but (to provide) for something like this is overwhelming her financial situation.

Lydian Stubbs

It's overwhelming, ... It's an empty hole that you're always going to throw money into.

Charles Holt

Her mother was an overwhelming force, ... Her father was emphatic and imperious.

Arthur Schlesinger

[Commenting on the results of the poll, Calderón declared,] This proves that there will be a run-off, and I will be in that run-off. ... an overwhelming lead.

Santiago Creel

The feeling in the air was almost overwhelming for all of us.

Dick Schoeb

It's a critical time of dealing with an overwhelming diagnosis.

Vanessa Lewis

Toshiba's bid is so overwhelming that I don't know if anyone is going to pay attention to us.

Jim Roddey

The question we asked was would you support an application to the high court for a judicial review and the overwhelming answer was yes.

Mick Kelly

We view the vote as an overwhelming endorsement of the merger.

John Still

The bold-face truth is that we're trying and getting there but in the face of an overwhelming type of situation we will do what we can, but it may not be enough.

Barbara Stader

I just feel very, very blessed for the opportunity. Oh man, some great things have happened this year. It can definitely be overwhelming, but it's really been special.

Joey Devine

The court determined that there was overwhelming evidence that a restraining order was appropriate. It is our hope that Mr. Stansfield will abide by the court order.

John Gatti

I've never been to MAGIC before. This is a little overwhelming.

Paula Abdul

It's like a big bomb to me. It's pretty overwhelming sometimes.

Chuck Lamb

Since then we have not heard of any overwhelming inconsistencies.

Caren Scoropanos

The overwhelming response has been positive. People are very excited and they're very happy and they know, especially people that know us, that these children will have a great home.

Michael Meehan

We meet with the police department on a regular basis and present issues of concern to us, and they are responsive to the overwhelming majority of those concerns.

Paul Fleuranges

Clearly the Chinese market is going to overwhelm everything else in Asia. In the last five, six, seven years, we have concentrated entirely on China.

Leo Melamed

We bundle a lot of fabrics and I wanted to promote them. I like to help people choose fabrics -- but there are so many, sometimes it's overwhelming.

Karen Snyder

The emotion of this week has been overwhelming. It's like losing someone in your family.

Dan Leibovitz

Animated features have become an important component of the studio lineup, so there was an overwhelming consensus that this new category be added.

Philip Berk

A new wave of millions of Afghans will overwhelm hospitality, (we must) insure that we have local and federal governments on board.

Peter Kessler

It's been a pretty overwhelming experience. It was very exciting and very competitive. Tonight we had a great effort and got the win.

Gina Kearns

The hardest part of the whole thing is going out there and playing with intensity, ... I found out before our last game with IUP [Indiana, Pa.]. I came out and everyone was like, 'Do it for Bruce!' But it was so overwhelming, that game was just like a blur.

Jimmy Lewis

[When it comes to the current state of housing,] there are some signs of a slowdown, but they are very ambiguous signs, ... It's not clear, and it's not overwhelming.

Nicolas Retsinas

They have the overwhelming advantage of an incredibly great brand for search, but they're coming from behind when it comes to meeting the specific needs of enterprises.

David Schatsky

Honestly, I went home and just passed out, I was so tired. It was so overwhelming.

Jessica Rader

It is a big, fat invitation to fraud which would overwhelm the system, and a diversion of scarce resources from where they are needed.

Janice Kephart

I wanted to help my friend and neighbor Janet and see for myself how people down there are coping. I was amazed at the amount of debris and destruction still evident. It was just a little overwhelming.

Randy Young

The most overwhelming response we've had has been from the college coaches because they will be in a feeding frenzy. The Final Four will be over. Signing day is over. Now they will be focusing on who they can sign in the fall of 2006.

Ron Crawford

We feel this is a great success. We had overwhelming support from the business community and from our own members. This will definitely become a TBAN tradition.

Mike Ballard

Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.

Vanilla Ice

It is overwhelming, all our prayers have been answered. We hope to bring him home soon.

Chris Linsley

After Billy Wagner, I'd say Kyle and B. J. Ryan seem to be the overwhelming choice of a lot of teams.

Barry Meister

It's overwhelming. We had the roster to do it (nine first-round NHL draft choices) and we had the guys to do it, but we just got outworked.

Bobby Ryan

What political capital he has, I don't think it's wise to use to try to push through something that the overwhelming majority of Americans oppose, and that is amnesty.

Connie Hair

There's just a lot going on all the time. Sometimes it can be overwhelming, but it's never boring.

James Geisler

That's what I dislike about the mainstream media. There's this overwhelming cynicism.

Tim Bodine

It's overwhelming to think about it now. But at the time, you just do it.

Sue Haefner

With all of the logistics, it was very overwhelming, but it all worked.

Carol Potter

It's scary she has two more years to develop. She could become an overwhelming player.

Susan Kubala

Too many children are not getting a healthy start in life; they are not getting proper preventive medical care; and they are not getting a nutritious diet. The cost to them, and to all of us if we continue down this path, will be overwhelming.

Beth Griffin

It was overwhelming. There was a landslide of merchandise. We just got the ball rolling and away it went.

Jeff Pelzel

Clearly, our job here at ABC is to protect the rights of the open-shop (nonunion) contractors to compete in this market. But it is an empirical fact that the overwhelming majority of canceled projects fall into this category.

Warren Hardy

We are not just selling real estate. We are selling a way of life, and the response has been overwhelming. It's the ultimate luxury: an effortless, carefree way of living in a modern, complex, hectic city.

Ian Schrager

I remember the lead disappearing just like that. It was a whole spectrum of emotions and an overwhelming relief and joy at the end. I remember frustration and anger that we allowed the lead to be extinguished. It shouldn't have come down to that.

Teri Rosinski

There are two overwhelming reasons why Turkey should be allowed to join the EU.

Michael Gunter

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Wernher von Braun

This document confirms that support for comprehensive smoke-free legislation was overwhelming.

Alex Markham

When there's an overwhelming request on the part of an overwhelming majority in your caucus that you're elected to represent to do or not do something, you should be very respectful of that.

Sen. Cathy Stepp

It's overwhelming. This is the climax.

Ang Lee

It was overwhelming, ... They were holding on to bags like they were protecting the Hope Diamond.

Mario Hernandez

We had overflow all the way up here. Our hotels were more full and our traffic was heavier. It wasn't overwhelming, but it was noticeable. The Olympics definitely had an impact.

Sandy Emile

We would like to see an overwhelming presence of American troops on the ground. Whatever it takes to help us.

Kabineh Ja'neh

It doesn't have to be overwhelming. It's not worth the effort -- you don't have to do everything yourself.

Jinny Fleischman

As a fledgling company, we made this choice as a first production one that allowed us to really stay true to the opera and not overwhelm ourselves with managing a very large cast.

Shyla Nelson

Unless there's overwhelming reason to withhold the information, the public's need to know should come first.

Al Tompkins

The biggest reason he was let go was because of competitiveness. Competitiveness was the overwhelming factor.

Scott Street

It was just overwhelming. The key to the Hard Rock is authenticity. There are no copies of anything.

Joe Billhimer

We want Wal-Mart to become more responsible to its employees, and hopefully compete with, rather than overwhelm local businesses.

Mike Elk

It is just totally overwhelming.

Kathleen Blanco

You get all these things, there are all these letters and gifts, sometimes strange ones; most of the time it can be really nice. But at the same time, it's overwhelming. Because I know I'm going to have to look through it. Most of it is filling the corners of my house and I can't respond to it all right away.

Viggo Mortensen

On the one hand there is definitely rage and anger for the drunken driver of the car mixed with overwhelming sadness for the survivors.

Gene Kelly

There is an overwhelming amount of work out there, and there isn't the labor force to keep up with it.

Krass Degeorge

To me, public speaking seemed overwhelming.

Lynette Donnelly

Packet logs and the video together are overwhelming proof.

Ben Edelman

We are highly encouraged by the overwhelming response to our offering. Based on the current progress and activity, we anticipate being able to close our offering by midsummer.

Bryan Kennedy

I think it's a great idea. I think they should get a few more as long as we kind of keep them in centralized areas and don't overwhelm the cape.

John Reeves

The response of the community has just been overwhelming. It was really exciting to see everything come together the way that it did.

Kelsey Bauerly

Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.

Carol King

Inventories of both crude and the products are overwhelming the market. Geopolitical concerns have supported prices but they seem to be fading into the background.

Jim Steel

We had a full day of evidence presented on Friday. The basis of evidence presented, which was overwhelming, in our view, showed that the emergency suspension should never have been issued in the first place. Obviously, the board agreed.

Peter Stirba

The growth of Fort Riley is rather overwhelming, but if you keep a positive attitude and know you're going to get through the end of it, it's the opportunity of a lifetime.

Larry Mcgee

One church. One day. Three thousand letters. It was overwhelming.

Susanne Villarreal

I think it will receive an even more overwhelming reception in the Senate.

Sen. Richard Nass

The overwhelming majority of people are over 40.

Stacey Hallahan

Anecdotal information of poor or nonexistent security in this sector is overwhelming.

Richard Falkenrath

He brings a lot of energy to the field. Like any freshman in our scheme, it can be fairly overwhelming at times. But he brings tremendous energy and is a strong guy.

Chris Woods

I don't think that making ourselves invulnerable to feeling any onslaught to our feelings will help us in life, ultimately. I think we only learn and grow by allowing ourselves to be really challenged by those feelings that do overwhelm us occasionally.

Ben Kingsley

This has very greatly strengthened the justifiable belief of the Indian middle class that an overwhelming majority of the politicians and a fairly large majority of the bureaucrats, technocrats and anyone else in authority is corrupt.

Inder Malhotra

It's an overwhelming tragedy. It's truly an act of nature, but it doesn't make the tragedy any less painful or poignant.

Bill Dalton

The idea is good, the goal of getting seniors some help on the cost of their medication. I just don't think that it was well thought out, and I think that it was implemented too quickly. There are just so many factors. It's overwhelming, really.

Larry Coats

It's a great opportunity. It's really exciting but at the same time, it's a little overwhelming. But I've coached under some good guys and played under some good coaches so hopefully this will be my opportunity to give back to the kids.

Andy Didomenico

I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.

Dorothy Stratten

Right now it's huge, it's overwhelming -- the current need and demand for these types of services and products.

Jeffrey Johnson

We've gotten an overwhelming amount of help.

Christopher Lyons

It's kind of overwhelming right now, ... I can barely walk. I'm tired and sore, but really happy to have finished.

Chris Connelly

We don't think there's any evidence at all that he has endorsed terrorism. In fact, there is overwhelming evidence that he has condemned terrorism.

Jameel Jaffer

When my number was called for first place, my mother held up the Australian flag so high and the cheers were overwhelming from the crowd, ... The news is being well received back in Australia, too. We've won on three continents.

Mark Goodwin

The exterior changes are positive, they're not overwhelming. I don't think they have many opportunities there to make any dramatic statement.

Paul Pugliese

This is so overwhelming, standing-room only for my baby.

Laura Hamblin

The opposition is overwhelming. It's just not a good spot to put it in.

Charles O'brien

The evidence is certainly overwhelming that he was operating the car, the car was going at excessive speed and he was under the influence. And someone died as the result, unfortunately, of his driving.

John Peck

At times, it seemed like an overwhelming task. Because the set is all connected, we couldn't change any one part of it. We just had to keep going.

Bob Ecker

They have a very vocal tiny minority of American citizens who overwhelm the majority because they are so vocal and they're so vehement. So politicians are afraid of them.

Mike Barnes

I almost fell off the elliptical glider. So many emotions, which I had suppressed for so long, hit me. Pain, frustration, sadness n it was very unsettling, very overwhelming.

Anna Madorsky

It is so obvious that BC is committed and interested in the cause. They showed up and are overwhelming every other school here - even the event host!

Maureen Kelly