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488 Sheer quotes by 420 unique authors

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 Björn Türoque, 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
A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending! — Bent Larsen
The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought.… — Queen Noor of Jordan
One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror. — Unknown Author
When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down… — Karl Marlantes
The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction. — Emanuel Ax
I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose,… — Ben Lerner
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 disillusionment ! Sometimes… — Bill Bailey
One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life. — Joel Salatin
Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence. — Dave Hickey
My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them in… — Lewis Thomas

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