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488 Sheer quotes by 420 unique authors

A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close,… — Mary Johnson
The sheer violence of it, the howl of air raid sirens and the air-cutting fall of the missiles carried its own political message; not just… — Robert Fisk
In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed… — Lytton Strachey
It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the… — Soren Kierkegaard
. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare - how… — Wole Soyinka
Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result… — Arthur Miller
[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion. — Vincent de Paul
They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw, elusive… — Don DeLillo
This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have… — Henry David Thoreau
Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and… — Deborah Eisenberg
These are the highlights in a lifetime of following sports. Hilarity. The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing volleyball, a game… — James A. Michener
For sheer sensory enjoyment, few everyday experiences can compete with a good cup of coffee. — Ernesto Illy
I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in… — Chris Kraus
I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom… — Anna Akhmatova
The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the… — Woodrow Wilson
Your skin is so soft. Smells like...-She had to tilt him to get this other arm free and hated knowing how badly she was hurting… — Cherry Adair
All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to… — Ravi Zacharias
We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness. — Katherine Dunn
He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration. — Robert Musil
I do not believe that our relationship to the earth is liable to change for the better until it gets catastrophically worse. Our record indicates… — Joseph Sittler
This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to… — Farid al-Din Attar
No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed. When the self… — E. Stanley Jones
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes… — Carl Jung
Have you ever considered how much pure stuff and nonsense surrounds this subject of interior decoration? Probably not. Almost everyone believes that there is something… — Dorothy Draper

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