Sheer Quotes - Page 8

• No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.

  James Thurber

  Running, Women, Long

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• I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily on suspense with a texture rich in emotion and imagery. I take a great deal of satisfaction in using popular forms-- the adventure, the mystery, the thriller-- so as to hold my reader with the sheer pleasure of a good story. At the same time I try to resolve my books with an ambiguity that compels engagement. In short, I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

  Avi

  Book, Writing, Adventure

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• For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive, sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people: our own selves dehumanized into the masses. And where is the David who can slay this giant?

  Lillian Smith

  Dream, Real, Men

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• I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays, they're really good. And there's just a handful of them. Well, how good would they be if there were 2,500 of them? But that's the future looking back at us. Anything you can think of, there's going to be millions of them. Just the sheer number of things will devalue them. I don't care whether it's art, literature, poetry or drama, whatever. The sheer volume of it will wash it out. I mean, if you had thousands of Greek plays to read, would they be that good? I don't think so.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Art, Drama, Mean

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• Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we're left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.

  Sam Harris

  Mean, Thinking, Knowing

  "Sam Harris On Death". Big Think, July 4, 2007.

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• In Nigeria, there is energy, whether it is Lagos, which is sheer anarchy, but it is not lethargic. It is strong, even aggressive and if that energy could be directed to work it will produce really enormous results.

  Chinua Achebe

  Strong, Energy, Anarchy

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.

  Nikola Tesla

  Progress, Becoming, Satanic

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.506, Simon and Schuster

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• All the great enterprises of the world are run by a few smart men: their aides and associates run down by rapid stages to the level of sheer morons. Everyone knows that this is true of government, but we often forget that it is equally true of private undertakings. In the average great bank, or railroad, or other corporation the burden of management lies upon a small group. The rest are ciphers.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Smart, Lying

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.121, Knopf

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• What the issue here is, you get rid of all the conservative orthodoxy about capital gains, marginal tax rate, supply side economics, you just throw all that out the window, limited government and you just embrace the sheer and raw politics of resentment that have been bubbling the whole time and that`s what you get. You get Donald Trump.

  Chris Hayes

  Government, Issues, Gains

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The number of nuclear bombs on the planet today - the sheer quantity of weapons of mass destruction in the possession of people and governments throughout the world - along with the fact that the use of brute force and militarism is an almost knee-jerk way of problem-solving on the planet today, makes the eradication of war the great moral issue of this generation.

  Marianne Williamson

  War, Numbers, Issues

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• That was sheer luck that it [being immersed into folk scene] happened when my voice began to develop. I don't know exactly what would have happened if I hadn't been alive and well and really lively in the Cambridge scene. But (the folk scene) was, and I fell into it absolutely naturally in the little coffee shops, and pretty soon it was Newport and then it was an overwhelming response internationally, actually.

  Joan Baez

  Coffee, Voice, Luck

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• And the rules were so clear, you could not deviate from that all. And I think it especially damaged my sisters because there was nothing they could do to get my father's attention, to win his approval. They could not play sports. They could not do these other things. They could not be tough. They could not be macho. And so I think they suffered just from sheer neglect if nothing else.

  Terry Gross

  Sports, Father, Winning

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• Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication.

  Max Tundra

  Fabrication, My Own, Rooted

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.

  John Darnielle

  Goal, Guy, Mountain

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Cities are magical things. You know the energy in them. You have to walk the streets in any borough here and you can see between what was in this city in the 1970's and where it is today and how much more energy there is and how much more just sheer.

  Juan Enriquez

  Cities, Energy, Today

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When I wrote "Win," it only took about eight months, but eight months of sheer pain and suffering because every phrase that's in there - and there are about 130 specific linguistic recommendations - I had to test every one to make sure that it worked.

  Frank Luntz

  Pain, Winning, Eight

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• So the physicality of that and the just the sheer lack of urban noise and machinery - just the wind, the water and your breath, you know that kind of thing - it was pure poetry and you know I treasure that.

  DJ Spooky

  Wind, Water, Treasure

  Source: bigthink.com

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• People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance." And the answer is that natural selection is the very opposite of sheer chance. Natural selection is a non-random process.

  Richard Dawkins

  Eye, Opposites, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The form is always integral to the expression of the theme or to the sheer telling of the story, and sometimes the right form is apparent to me from the outset and sometimes it isn't.

  Steve Erickson

  Expression, Stories, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the war on drugs, state and state law enforcement agencies have been rewarded in cash by the federal government - through programs like the Edward Byrne Memorial Grant program - for the sheer numbers of people arrested for drug offenses.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Numbers, Agency

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Sometimes people feel mind is merely the - in some animal, the energy or something from the brain. Now there are little sort of curiosities or I think doubt sometimes a sheer sort of mental attitude, some change in our brain. So these fields, now scientists are showing some interest.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Animal, Thinking

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• It seems that just Being, the sheer fact of existence, that there is something rather than nothing, already inspires a wonder akin to religion. But - as in my comment about the Kingdom of God in the last answer - Jewish and Christian traditions are also prepared to challenge what 'is' for the sake of what could be.

  George Pattison

  Christian, Challenges, Inspire

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I taught for a semester, but couldn't work out my teaching schedule with my acting schedule because they just didn't jive. So, I had to make a decision. And by sheer luck, I'm sure, I have not stopped working as an actor.

  Danny Burstein

  Teaching, Work Out, Decision

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I definitely felt frightened [on Skyfall], but never in danger, because they were always so careful about everything. Some of the driving, particularly on that road around the sheer-drop cliff was actually done by stunt driver Ben Collin, who is otherwise known as The Stig from the TV show Pop Gear. He's a brilliant drive, nonetheless, it was terrifying to be careening along when a wrong turn would mean a thousand-foot drop and you're not in control and you want to slow the car down.

  Naomie Harris

  Mean, Tv Shows, Feet

  "Naomie Harris is the new James Bond Girl in Skyfall". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• Take care of your friends. Because there will come a time when you'll be no good to anyone, and the only reason for people to talk to you will be sheer habit.

  Garrison Keillor

  People, Care, Reason

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