Sheer Quotes

• What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.

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• The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Needs, Defense, Slavery

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). “The Souls of Black Folk”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

  Bette Davis

  Funny, Sexy, Waiting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.

  Suzy Parker

  Lucky, Born, Has Beens

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• Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

  Abba Eban

  Men, Missing, Suffering

  Abba Solomon Eban (1968). “Forward to peace: text of the address in the twenty-third plenary session of the Gerneral Assembly of the United Nations, Monday, 8 October, 1968”

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• Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Joy, World, Emotion

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• She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Animal, Curves, Hands

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.107, Macmillan

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• Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Law, Possibility, Existence

  "Understanding". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Reading, Book, Sight

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.14, A&C Black

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• When we're always connected, we allow others-colleagu es and celebrities, close friends and distant acquaintances, bloggers and news aggregators-set our life's agenda. Our ability to prioritize is paralyzed by the sheer volume of requests, demands, opportunities, and information.

  George Barna

  Opportunity, News, Agendas

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• The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Appreciation, Aggravation, Political

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• I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.

  Barack Obama

  Political, Dumb, Challenges

  Barack Obama (2006). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.31, Crown

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• God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His
  call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To
  serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the
  call of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Serving God, Heard, Accounts

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.11, Discovery House

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• IT and the entire communications business clearly have the greatest potential for growth. But if you're talking about sheer size, the steel and auto industries will remain at the top.

  Ratan Tata

  Communication, Talking, Growth

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses, in fastnesses: behind moats, behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass. But in fact we inhabit much punier structures. We are, as it turns out, all jerry-built. Or not even. You can just stick your head under the flap of the tent and crawl right in. If you get the okay.

  Martin Amis

  Wall, Thinking, Glasses

  "Time's Arrow". Book by Martin Amis, www.avclub.com. September 1991.

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• Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jobs, Hardest Job, People

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• So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Struggle, Mean, Adventure

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• Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

  Jim Elliot

  Knowing, Earth, Excitement

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• Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility has made you imagine them too many times in your head, and when you find yourself on that longed-for moonlit path, it seems unreal but still, somehow, familiar. You dreamed of it, of course; you know it like a memory.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Memories, Finding Yourself, Path

  Andrew Sean Greer (2007). “The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel”, p.65, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

  Agatha Christie

  Surprise, Lied, Produce

  Agatha Christie (1960). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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• Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

  Aldous Huxley

  Wise, Wisdom, Science

  1944 Time Must Have a Stop

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• Do what you do for the sheer joy of it, Do what you choose,not what someone else chooses for you.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Joy, You Choose, Sheer Joy

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• The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

  Hannah Arendt

  Numbers, Knowing, Development

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• She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

  Tom Robbins

  Water, Tears, Velocity

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.6, Bantam

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• If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Blow, Rocks, Splits

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.184, ReadHowYouWant.com

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