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The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?
— George Orwell
Life is sheer bliss when it wants to be.
— David Mitchell
To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.
— Jann Wenner
If left together for too long, the two of them might actually take over the civilized world, through sheer application of snide remarks.
— Gail Carriger
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!
— Evelyn Waugh
aplomb. Sometimes the sheer bravado of her actions astonished
— Debbie Macomber
The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.
— John C. Maxwell
In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago,
— Masahiro Sakurai
Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.
— Michel Faber
I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
— John Darnielle
Sheer human decency and civility are two of the most important contributions to our community life that women of courage can make.
— Chieko N. Okazaki
He stripped his clothes off and flung himself into a heavy sea, for the sheer pleasure of getting out safe again.
— Patrick McGrath
I finally understood why he was called Mad Rogan. It wasn't because he was insane. It was because he drove you nuts with sheer frustration. We
— Ilona Andrews
I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
For sheer primitive rage, commend me to a thoroughgoing humanitarian when you get him well roused.
— Agatha Christie
The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
— Ansel Adams
He began to understand why some people feared the dark so much. The sheer helplessness of not knowing what was right in front of you was terrifying.
— Matthew Reilly
The more you give, the more you will get. Then life will become a sheer dance of love.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Too many companies are just being big for the sheer sake of it. Too many CEOs thinking bigger is better.
— Roger Altman
The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.
— Carlos Castaneda
Most people die old, full of pain and regret. Or young and full of drugs and self-indulgence - or sheer bad luck.
— Caroline Kepnes
I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
— George Bernard Shaw
Oh, do you understand what I mean? Have you ever felt that about the Moon? Have you ever ached with the sheer beauty of it?
— James Lusarde
Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
— Fay Weldon
No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
— James Thurber
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.
— Anthony Burgess
No one who does not live with constant pain can imagine the toll it takes. The way it grinds you down. The sheer damnable tedium of it.
— Mary Doria Russell
A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!
— Bent Larsen
We often seek beauty in the outside, in the unknown, and often lack to realize the sheer beauty right in front of our very eyes, back home.
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
Escapefrom the power of the hunting pack,
and to know that wisdom is best
and beauty
sheer holiness. — Hilda Doolittle
I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.
— Lavrenti Lopes
Who might you be?" she demanded. "A wretched lord of cacophony and sheer decibels? Or a ruthless assassin of harmony?
— Pawan Mishra
So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.
— John Ratzenberger
Sheer dumb sentience. Here
— Kim Stanley Robinson
Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you make it happen through sheer force of will.
— Susan Wiggs
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
I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
— Takeshi Kitano
Afterward, Tsukuru Tazaki's life was changed forever, as if a sheer ridge had divided the original vegetation into two distinct biomes.
— Haruki Murakami
I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.
— Charles A. Lindbergh
Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.
— Jack Kerouac
dazzled by the sheer essence of the whole,
— Julia Kent
I look in the mirror every morning, okay. What is going on here? You know, I just say, 'Look, it's sheer insanity.'
— Si Robertson
Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.
— George Crabbe
We trust things more when they look like they were done for the love of it rather than the sheer commercial value of it.
— Robert Scoble
Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.
— Steven Pinker
I've learned what 'classical' means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.
— Gustav Holst
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
— Carroll O'Connor
We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive.
— Simon Morden
Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will.
— Jennifer Yuh Nelson
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
— Charles Spurgeon
What's an orgasm? It's hard to describe, but if I'm yelling and screaming from sheer, intense, sexual pleasure, then I call that an incredible orgasm.
— Tassa Desalada
The pristine virtue is nothing but absolute absurdity, utter obscurity and sheer imbecility.
— Chandrashekar
For sheer sensory enjoyment, few everyday experiences can compete with a good cup of coffee.
— Ernesto Illy
Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.
— Mortimer Adler
With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
— Johnny Weissmuller
I am an emotional person, and soccer is sheer emotion. For me, it is the best way to unwind.
— Martin Winterkorn
In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.
— Herbert Butterfield
Library terror - that feeling of being hopelessly overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of available books ...
— Owen Barfield
The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.
— Paul Westerberg
One day you'll understand the sheer awesomeness that is me.
— Dolph Lundgren
Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.
— Werner Herzog
I know, but it is a pleasant fiction, my dear, and the sheer impossibility of a quest is no reason to abandon it.
— Graham McNeill
By the effectiveness of redemption, not by impressive speech, nor by wooing and persuading, but only by the sheer unaided power of God.
— Oswald Chambers
Children are begotten by their parents out of sheer malice and dragged into the world out of the greatest imaginable inconsiderateness.
— Thomas Bernhard
Talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is to such thing. It is mere a matter of craftsmanship.
— William Morris
I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.
— James Hetfield
It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.
— Winston Churchill
When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama.
— Brian Boitano
Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers.
— Robert Greene
The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.
— Albert J. Nock
I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.
— Barbara Kingsolver
And though, finally, they would bring him down with sheer weight of numbers, none who heard him ask that question lived to see the dawn.
— Richard K. Morgan
A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.
— Jeremiah Denton
Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.
— Chris Ware
We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made.
— Richard Petty
Some of us got our reputations because we wrote good books or had clever publicists. He got his reputation through sheer hard work.
— James A. Owen
