If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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I like owls. I admire their intransigent spirit. I have respected them deeply ever since I met a baby owl in a… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The argument that the countries use for the sheer increase in Muslim doctors is the sheer increase in the Muslim population. In… — Neil Cavuto Copy Share Image
For sheer sensory enjoyment, few everyday experiences can compete with a good cup of coffee. — Ernesto Illy Copy Share Image
Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Vijji was not an accomplished yogi. She did what she did with just the sheer intensity of her emotions. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
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The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that… — Marianne Faithfull 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
What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer… — John Huston 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
Mr. Bush, I don't recognize the world you paint. I find your speech a form of sheer propaganda, having almost no relationship… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
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