Sheer Quotes - Page 5

• Only Jace, Clary thought, could look cool in pajama bottoms and an old T-shirt, but he pulled it off, probably through sheer force of will. -pg. 329-

  Cassandra Clare

  Looks, Force Of Will, T Shirt

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.329, Simon and Schuster

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• Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.

  Caryll Houselander

  I Love You, Falling In Love, People

  Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.91, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.

  Emily Giffin

  Fate, Thinking, Decision

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.346, Macmillan

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• It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling varieties of ethnic costume, that for a full fifteen seconds I could only hang my jaw in amazement.

  Hugh Laurie

  Pain, Fifteen, Costumes

  Hugh Laurie (1998). “The Gun Seller”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Adventure, Self, Personality

  "The New Art of Living". Book by Norman Vincent Peale, p. 13, 1986.

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• Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more charged than a Visa card at Christmas time.

  Lisi Harrison

  Sweat, Feet, Feelings

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• The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Depressing, Men

  Michael Lewis (2004). “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Good Friend, People, Ennui

  Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen (2009). “Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse”, p.41, Oxford University Press

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• Jonas. Their rock. Shattered into so many shards. Holding himself together through the sheer force of will.

  Christine Feehan

  Rocks, Together, Force Of Will

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• When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that's very tough, sheer agony. In that kind of harrowing situation, I always go away and cut myself off from the world. Also, I sober up immediately when there is genuine bad news in my life; I never face it with alcohol in my brain. I just rented a house in Palm Springs and sat there and just suffered for a couple of weeks. I suffered there until I was strong enough to face it.

  Ava Gardner

  Strong, Couple, Spring

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• And yet there was something about his strength, his arrogance, his sheer size that got under my skin. He probably couldn't even spell vanilla. He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

  Josh Lanyon

  Horse, Selfish, Arrogance

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• I should have known you'd side with them. It's some sort of of male bonding thing to think women aren't capable of running their own lives." He nuzzled the top of her head with his chin. "It's ego and sheer desperation. We have to keep you thinking we're the superior species." "News flash, Jack - no women on the face of earth believes that anymore." He trailed kisses down her cheek. "But men don't know women know that. We still live in our fantasy world, so don't muck it up for us.

  Christine Feehan

  Running, Believe, Kissing

  Christine Feehan (2006). “Conspiracy Game”, p.96, Penguin

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• People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers – everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this one thing, and everyone tells you you're very dramatic, very intense, and they see it as an affectation, but it´s actually just how you think. It really seems to you that the sky will fall if you are not personally holding it up. On the one hand, this is sheer arrogance; on the other hand, this is a very real fear. And it isn't that you ignore the potential repercussions of your actions. You don't think there are any. Because you are not even there.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq - mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography, the sheer forces of language and religion, the propaganda of state-run Arab media and the cynicism of the liberal West are all stacked against them.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Running, Reality, Media

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• She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Strong, Love You, Desire

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.193, Bantam

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• Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Hands, Cowardice

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

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• Easy climb, Kurokuma. You do it easily.' 'Not on your life,' Horace said... 'That's what we have Rangers for. They climb up sheer rock walls and crawl along narrow, slippery ledges. I'm a trained warrior, and I'm far to valuable to risk such shenanigans.' 'We're not valuable?' Will said, feigning insult. Horace looked at him. 'We've got two of you. We can always afford to lose one,' he said firmly.

  John Flanagan

  Wall, Warrior, Rocks

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• For once, his vampire expression failed him. His response was right there on his face, in full view and easily read. He went from surprise to disbelief then hope and sheer, utter joy all within a split second of each other, then he let loose a huge whoop of delight and swept me into his arms, hugging me fiercely.

  Keri Arthur

  Views, Expression, Joy

  Keri Arthur (2010). “Moon Sworn: A Riley Jenson Guardian Novel”, p.322, Dell

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• You're the brightest thing I've ever seen, Kaylee. You're this beautiful ball of fire spitting sparks out at the world, burning fiercely, holding back the dark by sheer will. And I always knew that if I reached out -- if i tried to touch you -- I'd get burned. Because you're not mine. I'm not supposed to feel the fire. I'm not supposed to want it. But I do. I want you, Kaylee, like I've never wanted anything. Ever. I want the fire. I want the heat, and the light, and I want the burn.

  Rachel Vincent

  Beautiful, Dark, Fire

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “If I Die”, p.232, Harlequin

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• The sheer splendor of the sight made my chest tighten and tears sting my eyes. All the darkness lately made it easy to forget the world contained more than people trying to hurt other people. It had beauty, too, if you knew where to look--and remembered to open your eyes.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hurt, Eye, Sight

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• To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.

  Alan Bennett

  Book, Reading, Ideas

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• In a moment of sheer terror, I realized I couldn't feel my brain. It was there just a minute ago. Maybe I really was dead. "Do I look dead to you?

  Darynda Jones

  Brain, Looks, Moments

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.19, Macmillan

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• He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.

  Patrick Süskind

  Favors, Spite, Malice

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• The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think.

  Derek Landy

  Pain, Regret, Thinking

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• What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Heart, Magic, Inexplicable

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