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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• If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.

  R. D. Laing

  Lying, Suffering, Deals

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• Marijuana brownies are amazing. Very simple to make, too. Just get some Duncan Hines brownie mix and cook the weed right in there. Drop it right in with the butter. I don't know who came up with this idea first, but it's sheer genius.

  George Lopez

  Weed, Marijuana, Simple

  George Lopez, Alan Eisenstock (2013). “I'm Not Gonna Lie: And Other Lies You Tell When You Turn 50”, p.17, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

  Sam Abell

  Alaska, Japan, Australia

  "A Life in Photos: Q&A with Sam Abell". Interview with Jenny Wells, uknow.uky.edu. July 20, 2012.

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• Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.

  Francis Collins

  Leap Of Faith, Way, Becoming

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• Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Book, Divorce, Past

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• It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  White, Sheep, Legs

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• Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.

  Arundhati Roy

  Art, War, Believe

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.112, South End Press

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• Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen — written in blood — from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines. It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

  Thomas Sowell

  Blood, Years, Iraq

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.397, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart, Red, Bowls

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, Faber & Faber

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• The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

  Evelyn Waugh

  Suspense, Lips, Hunger

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• Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it makes up for its lack of accuracy with sheer volume. There are 10 unique ads listed with every Gmail message in your queue, each tied to the message content. And a paying sponsor.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Successful, Unique, May

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• I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

  Virginia Woolf

  Funny, Friendship, Death

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• Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Loner, Force Of Will

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• 'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.

  Rob Sheffield

  Character, Bored, Debt

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• Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Vacation, Pleasure Seeking, Relax

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