Sheer Quotes

488 Sheer quotes by 420 unique authors

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence that… — Sri Aurobindo
It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to… — Scott Simon
What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played… — Bobby Hull
Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly… — Charles Lindbergh
Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at… — Utah Phillips
The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it seems to be… — Victor Davis Hanson
Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over… — Unknown Author
Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to… — Lillian Hellman
More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together. — Warren G. Bennis
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but… — Abba Eban
The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery. — Albert J. Nock
Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going… — Lev Yilmaz
Hidden behind the facade of pompous jargon and noble affections, there is more sheer larceny per square foot on the floor of the New York… — Richard Ney
Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps as… — Jesse Bering
C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into… — Erik Naggum
The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the… — Myrtle Reed
Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to… — Janet Burroway
I just love the sheer mess of New York. — Carter Burwell
Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity. — George Orwell
It is in order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what… — Frederick Franck
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

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