Sheer Quotes
488 Sheer quotes by 420 unique authors
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Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
— Alexander Pushkin
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Jonas. Their rock. Shattered into so many shards. Holding himself together through the sheer force of will.
— Christine Feehan
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When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that's very tough, sheer agony. In…
— Ava Gardner
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And yet there was something about his strength, his arrogance, his sheer size that got under my skin. He probably couldn't even spell vanilla. He…
— Josh Lanyon
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I should have known you'd side with them. It's some sort of of male bonding thing to think women aren't capable of running their own…
— Christine Feehan
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People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers – everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this one thing, and…
— Marya Hornbacher
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My desire, my sincere and heartfelt desire is to rip that surprisingly sheer garment from your body, toss you onto that bed, and indeed ravish…
— Victoria Alexander
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She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Easy climb, Kurokuma. You do it easily.' 'Not on your life,' Horace said... 'That's what we have Rangers for. They climb up sheer rock walls…
— John Flanagan
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For once, his vampire expression failed him. His response was right there on his face, in full view and easily read. He went from surprise…
— Keri Arthur
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You're the brightest thing I've ever seen, Kaylee. You're this beautiful ball of fire spitting sparks out at the world, burning fiercely, holding back the…
— Rachel Vincent
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The sheer splendor of the sight made my chest tighten and tears sting my eyes. All the darkness lately made it easy to forget the…
— Jeaniene Frost
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To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how…
— Alan Bennett
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In a moment of sheer terror, I realized I couldn't feel my brain. It was there just a minute ago. Maybe I really was dead.…
— Darynda Jones
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He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.
— Patrick Süskind
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The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch…
— Derek Landy
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What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're…
— Agatha Christie
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Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or…
— Honore de Balzac
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I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set…
— Neil Gaiman
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Whoa there, Tobias," says the man to my left. "Weren't you raised a Stiff? I thought the most you people did was... graze hands or…
— Veronica Roth
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Good. If you checked your e-mail every five minutes, or keep texting and Tweeting in the middle of our conversation, I might snap your neck…
— Jeaniene Frost
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My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above…
— Susan Hill
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My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the…
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These Sheer Quotes
420 authors contributed a total of 488 Sheer Quotes, led by these top contributors: