“ One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions… like a state of sheer terror. ”
- William K. Hartmann- Copy
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“ The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. ”
- Pappy Boyington- Copy
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“ Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. ”
- Kenneth Tynan- Copy
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“ A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor. ”
- Jeremiah A. Denton- Copy
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“ A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web. ”
- Monica Baldwin- Copy
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“ Italy wants to help Albania to reconstruct the state and to have quick democratic, transparent elections. ”
- Romano Prodi- Copy
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“ I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
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“ From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it. ”
- Bette Davis- Copy
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“ I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ Facts are ventriloquists' 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- Copy
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“ There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living… a way in which life itself is sheer knowing. ”
- Laurens Van der Post- Copy
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“ Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in. ”
- Gunther Grass- Copy
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“ Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide. ”
- Fay Weldon- Copy
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“ Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer and more meager. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor. ”
- Jeremiah A. Denton- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The sheer rebelliousness in giving ourselves permission to fail frees a childlike awareness and clarity… When we give ourselves permission to fail, we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel. ”
- Eloise Ristad- Copy
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“ They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like L. ”
- Aleister Crowley- Copy
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“ When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself. ”
- Oswald Chambers- Copy
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“ When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep! ”
- Georges Bernanos- Copy
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“ Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term selectivity. ”
- Berenice Abbott- Copy
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“ It is deplorable, but not tragic, simply to be a victim of circumstance. Sheer victimization is not an assertion - and it naturally makes not for vision but for frustration. The victimizing circumstances, or accidents, seem arbitrary and exorbitant, even silly. ”
- Kenneth Burke- Copy
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“ Say Farallon and I hear an instant music, a kind of animal ocean-noise, built mainly of gull cries and sea lion barkings. Every gull is saying Mine! Mine! Mine!, but the lions sometimes seem to be sounding off for the sheer pleasure of it. ”
- John Hart- Copy
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