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488 Sheer quotes by 420 unique authors

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. — Oscar Wilde
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith. — Francis Collins
Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been… — Martin Filler
Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it makes up for… — Douglas Rushkoff
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness! — Evelyn Waugh
And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me. — Sylvia Plath
I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead. — Charles Lindbergh
Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm… — Thomas Sowell
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock… — Arundhati Roy
I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street. — Virginia Woolf
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great… — Elizabeth Gilbert
It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little… — Diana Wynne Jones
Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues,… — J P Donleavy
Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it,… — George Leigh Mallory
Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth! — Jim Elliot
Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility has made you imagine them… — Andrew Sean Greer
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary… — Agatha Christie
Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk… — Aldous Huxley
Do what you do for the sheer joy of it, Do what you choose,not what someone else chooses for you. — Neale Donald Walsch
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the… — Hannah Arendt
That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book,… — Mary Ann Shaffer
Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground. — Janet Fitch
It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb… — Michael Chabon
Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice… — Condoleezza Rice

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