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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

The basis for optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Virginia Woolf

It was just the sheer demand of people wanting stuff and the demand of supplying it.

Maureen Allyn

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Heinrich Heine

As much as this disturbs me, it disturbs me even more that other kids living in this home had access to even more drugs, ... It's just sick that he allowed this to happen. It's sheer stupidity.

Joseph Conti

The launch of this new magazine offers PC World's customers an engaging new branding experience. It finely balances inspiration with practical knowledge and buying advice, designed to deepen the customer's relationship with the PC World brand. The scope and effectiveness of editorial combined with the sheer scale of circulation will combine to have a significant impact in this dynamic market.

John Gower

That was sheer guts. Nothing more.

Shawn Lewinski

This is sheer, sensationalistic speculation. This case has attracted all kinds of crazies, kooks.

Henry Klingeman

For the past five months, the company has been working on the profitability of the phone business rather than just sheer market share. We think Motorola can achieve those double-digit operating margins.

Marc Cabi

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

The three hires were brilliant hires from everyone else's view. The sheer arrogance and recklessness of this has divided the union in a way that might be irreparable.

Paul Christie

We believe we are in the lead by the sheer number of vehicles deployed by customers each day.

Gunnar Lindstrom

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.

James Thurber

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

Pappy Boyington

The governor is now in sheer panic mode.

Steve Maviglio

The idea is treating lingerie like a real garment - it's very chic to see your underwear now, especially a bra. I wear great bras I know people will see under sheer blouses.

Lauren Goodman

That report is sheer fabrication and extremely irresponsible.

Kong Quan

[Reliance Road] is a far worse intersection, probably deserving of a signal just by sheer numbers of use. It's a sharp bend. There's a number of accidents there. So it's problem.

Mike Coll

I think what makes this one different is just the sheer scope and size of it. It's just going to be a much, much longer haul.

Ray Stone

What the students and I talked about was that this meant they were all just so many handshakes away from Jesus. The thrill for me was seeing the sheer joy that the students felt. That was more important to me than touching the pope myself. They really, really got excited.

Tom Sienkewicz

Maybe the most important thing about this team compared to last is the sheer depth. All the players 1-4 could play anywhere 1-4. Likewise 5-8. That really helps the kids develop in practice.

Giri Raichur

We are really pleased that people are so passionate about the Top 100 DJs poll and their dance music. The poll has continued to grow over the years and we're delighted with the phenomenal response this year. The dance scene is now much more accessible to far more people than it ever was five or 10 years ago. This is reflected in the sheer volume of votes received.

Charles Ward

That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything [was] going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.

Susanna Hoffs

The state we're in now is because of the policy decision to co-opt those people who in the past committed human rights abuses. There's a culture of impunity. They continue in many cases to abuse the rights of people under them. There are drug problems in the north, tribal problems, sheer criminality.

Joanna Nathan

She shook it off and played on sheer adrenaline for the rest of the game.

Jenny Moshak

In addition to just the sheer communication, if we succeed with this, there will be enormous benefits in terms of coordination, and we'll actually be able to save lives.

Jason Bell

There was a lot of red tape, ... We were able to cut through some of that by sheer force.

William Brown

Sheer panic because we were in Florida and there was nothing we could do.

Janalee Gallagher

We often get massive shipments from our police department clients, but nothing like this. Our site is known for great bargains, and with the sheer volume of merchandise coming in, our bidders can expect to get truly amazing deals on this jewelry, computer equipment and other merchandise.

Tom Lane

This is a sheer farce, this is not a real trial.

Alexander Milinkevich

You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered.

Anna Sui

That is an incredibly fast response. The sheer volume of commodities we're moving around in South Florida in all those affected counties, we're doing it faster than we did last year in all those storms.

Frances Marine

It's going to be difficult to handle the sheer volume of information and the slick materials and giveaway incentives.

Deane Beebe

For the sheer love of movement and creating music with my body. It's so liberating.

Raymond Rodriguez

The Bob Woodruff case in point, the sheer dangers for foreign correspondents to go out and get a story are just phenomenal, so Iraqi nationals are being hired. Initially, [the Iraqis] were translators and drivers, but increasingly they're becoming the [primary] journalists who collect the story on the ground.

Tala Dowlatshahi

Act of sheer madness.

Lionel Jospin

The sheer number of things making us feel remorseful is so great that if we don't seek forgiveness, we could end up psychologically disabled. So people go around asking to be forgiven just so that they don't continue to go on suffering. But often its too facile.

Richard Friedman

We also have to provide services to the emergency personnel who are working the search and rescue. It's an amazing operation right now, and no one organization is doing it by itself. We are all pulling together to try and help each other due to the sheer mass of the storm and damage done.

Steve Kerr

Students are the true winners in this change in policy. The change is most likely to lead to an increase in the sheer number and variety of programs that become available to them.

Jeff Benson

If the trend with pre-retirees continues, the sheer size of the 77 million baby boomer population, coupled with impending postage increases, will drive up the government's costs to issue paper checks exponentially.

Dick Gregg

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

The VR-1 is our first entry into the semi-rugged market, so we set out to make the best laptop in terms of durability, published standards, and sheer computing performance.

Thomas Turner

At its most base level, the sheer wealth of these candidates shows that representative democracy in California isn't representative at all. These are wealthy, white individuals and that makes it that much harder for them to represent all of California's diversity.

Ned Wigglesworth

If the trend with pre-retirees continues, the sheer size of the 77 million baby boomer population -- coupled with impending postage increases -- will drive up the government's costs to issue paper checks exponentially... and taxpayers will bear the burden.

Dick Gregg

This auction has opened a space at the bottom for a new generation of artists to come into auctions. The auction results are a sheer boost to young artists. Just like China, Russia and the US, Indian contemporary art was the next big genre to arrive on the world scene.

Dinesh Vazirani

Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling,/ The darling of our crew.

Charles Dibdin

I have never been a serious person.... I am not serious at all because existence is not serious. It is so playful, so full of song and so full of music and so full of subtle laughter. It has no purpose; it is not business-like. It is pure joy, sheer dance, out of overflowing energy. .

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

The extent of the problem is the sheer numbers of animals that go through the animal shelter and the number of feral cats around town.

Teri Schweiss

It was a terrifying moment, and a moment of sheer relief, ... I saw that there was exactly enough room in the soft tissue betweenthe outside of my face, and the beginning of my skull, there was just enough room to hold that bullet.

Marc Cohn

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

The sheer magnitude and frequency of wholesale price rallies are such that absorbing these increased costs to protect market share is simply not a commercially viable option.

Andrew Hill

The sheer numbers will become quite daunting.

Loren Coleman

If the trend with pre-retires continues, the sheer size of the 77 million baby boomer population, coupled with impending postage increases, will drive up the government's costs to issue paper checks exponentially. Taxpayers will bear the burden.

Dick Gregg

Suffice to say, I have waited for something I can sing and play with sheer truth, ... The band is great, Didz is grand, and I am feeling alive again. We will be playing live before you know it.

Carl Barat

Our kids kept us in the game with sheer work ethic and will. Northwestern off its win over Iowa is just a juggernaut at this point.

Dane Fife

The sheer volume of communicating with three-quarters of a million people is quite an undertaking, much more than I expected.

John Stemberger

There is absolutely no question about the sheer brutality of this act.

Roger Falk

It's not as bad as it was in the sense of the sheer brutality of 100 years ago - before labor laws and food safety laws. But for the times we're in now, the situation is much in line with what it was 100 years ago.

Lance Compa

As a stunningly talented producer and writer he brought pleasure to millions of people, and it's a tribute to his sheer creative energy that he remained active up to the very end.

Roly Keating

You can see that by the sheer number of bigger companies interested in Pennsylvania that there are not a whole lot of other domestic opportunities right now.

Brian Mcgill

It's probably been — as far as exposure, as far as sheer numbers of people — the best and most effective place to be.

Peter Wein

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

Jim Elliot

The collaboration with the musicians of the New York Philharmonic is sheer joy. The Orchestra is so professional, so prepared, so motivated. I float from day to day, concert to concert, masterpiece to masterpiece, supported by the sound of the New York Philharmonic.

Lorin Maazel

It's a classic example of what CDF preaches against, ... People build in wilderness areas with narrow streets and very few ways of getting out. There's sheer panic with people worried about their homes and their lives.

Steve Sherman

Without question, this county, probably because of the sheer size of some of the facilities, has to be the casino leader in California.

Jerry Turk

At the start of the year, I felt that given the machinery, there were bound to be places where I would win because of sheer chance. I didn't want to rely on that because I knew I had to show my ability. So I looked at the season and made an assessment as to where my best opportunities might come.

Damon Hill

What's new is the electronic media and the sheer volume of it was exceptional.

Carl Thayer

Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soulpower to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.

Dr. Frank Crane

The Indians were so pleased to be here. Many would just look at the environment and smile. This is the way nature should be treated. Of course, in India we have a much larger population, so much of our environment looks worse. The Indians who came over were taken with the sheer beauty here.

Arjun Sablok

You could look for hours at that sheer cliff trying to see a little hole in it. You're better off watching for the adults on the wing or checking with the visitor's center on nest locations.

Jeff Bradybaugh

He wasn't able to injure somebody else, that we know of at this point. It's just sheer relief for our local community.

Gloria Mccauley

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

This is an area of about 20 million people.... The sheer rebuilding effort is going to take billions of dollars.

Tarek Fatah

The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop quite naturally, and to let the person go on as long as possible with the sheer joy of singing . . .

Jessye Norman

It's not a good start for cooperation if such an alliance is founded on the basis of a sheer emergency.

Frank Decker

Very large patients usually need five times as long to be brought out of their homes. The problem is not so much carrying the great weight as the sheer volume of their bodies.

Peter Braun

We found him just by sheer luck. I was going after some boys from England, and Barry's name popped up. We had what he wanted. Hopefully, he has what we wanted.

Russ Fager

The sheer poverty was like nothing else we had ever seen before. It was to the point where people didn't want to leave because they had nothing else and nowhere to go.

Chris Lane

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall / Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap / May who ne'er hung there.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

It's been 100 days of sheer hell.

Ben Gill

One of the amazing aspects of the library is just the sheer numbers of computers that are available to the public.

Kay Runge

You may design something in steel, but to make it, you need to know how to manipulate the material. On a sheer technical end, you have to know how to weld stainless steel.

Brian Slocum

The key to this season is layering, new proportions created by wide volumes teamed with narrow cuts, and contrasting material combinations like matte and shiny, or course and sheer fabrics.

Jennifer Uglialoro

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

Because of the sheer size of Libya, it is unrealistic to expect the National Oil Company to be able to develop all the many opportunities on offer.

Craig Mcmahon

Back then, you did it yourself and we hope this encourages people to do the same. The nobleman's collection is not so much about the beauty of objects, but more about their sheer ingenuity. You can see he's responding to the ingenuity, responding to the intelligence.

Joaneath Spicer

Maybe it's sheer athleticism, but that's not quite it. Aspen kids are on skis for so much of their life. When they put on jumping skis, they are just big skis. They are not intimidated and handle it beautifully. They are fearless.

Fritz Carpenter

Regardless of how much will or commitment they show, the sheer scale of it is beyond their capacities.

Robert Fraser

To us, that's a major loss, just because of their sheer size.

Pat Cummins

Marin is one of those silent leaders who lead just through sheer work ethic and by example.

Shannon Miller

America probably have the edge just in the sheer numbers of club pros they have - some 28,000 versus 6,500 - and due to the climate and other factors they probably generally play to a slightly higher level but it's important we play our own game and don't get sucked into playing theirs.

Jim Farmer

The sheer act of tightening will be viewed in the bond market as the sun coming up in the East.

Paul Mcculley

I think everyone has been taken aback by the sheer enormity of events following the Indian Ocean earthquake.

Richard Scudamore

This was different than some other parties because of the sheer numbers.

Susan Gray

People weren't notified soon enough then they were given the impression it affected them when it didn'tñ it was sheer carelessness and incompetence on the part of the city. Unfortunately, these things are becoming more common since amalgamation. The problem is it's all controlled from a central location and they (city staff) don't the areas.

John Ashworth

A lot of the viscose we're using is sheer, but it 's a very sort of industrial sort of fabric ... and it drapes really well, which is unusual.

Richard Tyler

The sheer volume of Vietnam veterans now is overwhelming.

Ron Faust

We saw nothing but sheer destruction.

Dan Taylor

If this had happened in the third week of September, it would have been sheer chaos.

David Marshall

The state personnel were overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of children to be protected and transported.

Robert Adley

Oil will continue to be the backbone due to its sheer scale plus the rate of expansion envisaged. I'm not sure if this is enough evidence of diversification or conversely is it just evidence of the benefits of a booming oil sector.

Robert Bunyi

Just the sheer number of starlings are overwhelming the existing deterrent systems.

Anne Maschmeyer

We look for this settlement to largely open the way to positive developments. The sheer magnitude of the claims that the plaintiffs were asserting has been troublesome for investors.

Lasan Johong

This is a case of deceit and sheer fraud.

Steven Bernstein

While no one doubts the majority of illegal immigrants from Mexico are simply looking for work or a better way of life, the sheer volume of illegal crossings offers ample opportunities for those who might have other plans.

Antonio Garza

We're all about the testosterone. If you can't find it in our store, we've got a catalog that's 500 pages of sheer, gut-wrenching, screaming power.

Roger Bunn

For Betty, feminism was an aspect of humanism. And one of her sons said this morning that she demonstrated that sheer intelligence could trump lack of intelligence.

Emily Bazelon

Only after many trials for strength,Only when all stimulants fail,Does the aspiring soulBy its own sheer powerFind the divineBy resting upon itself.

Edgar Lee Masters