Sheer Quotes

488 quotes by 420 authors

It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And when down the midnight the… — Clinton Scollard
In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants… — Jack Weatherford
I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who have given me… — Alfred Lunt
God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him; He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I… — Oswald J. Smith
Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve… — Swami Vivekananda
We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions... — Llewellyn Rockwell
The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow - the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Two out of every three goals you score come from checking. One out of every three comes from sheer finesse. — Harry Sinden
These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell. — Cyrus Rowlett Smith
Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want.… — Waverley Root
I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal. — Thornton Wilder
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking… — Alfred North Whitehead
Mass becomes immobile; it cannot manoeuvre and therefore cannot win victories, it can only crush by sheer weight. — Hans von Seeckt
I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of BjÃ¶rn TÃ¼roque, the world's… — John Hodgman
Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the most remarkable. .… — Loren Eiseley
Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he… — Seth Grahame-Smith
We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made. — Richard Petty
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. — Kenneth Tynan
A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor. — Jeremiah Denton
Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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