Sheer Quotes

488 Sheer quotes by 420 unique authors

For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement. — Ira Berlin
In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will… — Wayne Muller
Part of the magic of the experience lay in the sheer beauty of the setting: the breathtaking sight of the high mountains, the sweep of… — Joseph Jaworski
One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But… — Will Schwalbe
Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the ideas… — Peter Greenaway
The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosis spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so… — Geoff Davis
The principle of [divine] purpose... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks... The probability for such an event as the origin of DNA… — Ernst Boris Chain
It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more… — Dalai Lama
We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath… — Angela Thomas
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant… — Christopher Dawson
You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered. — Anna Sui
Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in… — Oswald Chambers
Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither… — Albert Einstein
You dont make music for immortality you make music for the moment of capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet earth, WOW! is… — Ray Manzarek
The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut… — Chuck Schuldiner
It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror. — Jean Lorrain
To be alive means to live in a world that proceeded one’s own arrival and will survive one’s own departure. On this level of sheer… — Hannah
Muslims all over the world are looking with high expectations toward the ummah community in the United States and Canada. Its dynamism, fresh approach, enlightened… — Unknown Author
All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God — Brennan Manning
Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends. — Philip Roth
They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly… — Aleister Crowley
Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states. Use your… — Tony Robbins
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He didn't. If he… — H. L. Mencken
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes… — Kenny Smith

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