#sheer

Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure. ↗

— George Crumb

#future #i #into #more #nonetheless

The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosi's spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#daily #daily lives #difficult #figure #lives

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

#day #driving #first #greed #sheer

For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #been #colors #diversity #else

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#bad #beautiful #elegant #glamour #like

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

#after #eat #end #get #joy

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

#critic #done #drop #fruits #general

I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can't do it constantly, unless you're willing to put the resources in. ↗

— Merton Miller

#believe #constantly #course #economists #i

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#guts #just #many #need #preparation

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement. ↗

— David Remnick

#change #deeper #degrees #enormous #enough