The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
If ever there's been somebody to hold as an icon of sheer determination and willpower, it's that guy [Stephen Hawking ], let… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
There were long stretches where each of us was engaged in a private world of rapidly shifting vignettes. Always I was overwhelmed… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
I ask you not to judge me for my weakness. The only way I can endure is to be in a place… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm's length, the length of the arm to be proportionate… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Olay BB Cream is a lifesaver, and I wear it every day while I train and compete. Twenty-four-hour hydration and sheer color… — Lindsey Vonn Copy Share Image
Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
For most humans, especially for those in modern urban and suburban communities, the most direct form of contact with nonhuman animals is… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
What the issue here is, you get rid of all the conservative orthodoxy about capital gains, marginal tax rate, supply side economics,… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Once we see more of our need and understand more of what Christ has done for us, he will become more precious… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
While all men are born as equals, to say that Brahmins alone are the highest and all others are low as Pariah… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
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I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol. — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
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Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create. — Wayne White Copy Share Image
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
You can't breathe for sheer revulsion when you keep finding the bodies of women with bamboo poles thrust up their vaginas. Even… — John Rabe Copy Share Image
There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
If I wasn't a footballer, I don't know what I would have been. But that was through sheer determination, a good family… — Dion Dublin Copy Share Image
Everyone knows the presidential candidates and has an opinion about them. But as you get to smaller races, that evaporates and you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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