Mere Quotes

Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.

A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow.

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.

The mere idea of asking a family member if they intentionally stopped sending me an annual bonus makes me feel like breaking out in hives.

I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.

Everything is mere opinion.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.

To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.

The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which are more sure and solid than all experience and even life itself.

Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.

I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.

when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.

Deny my individuality and I become an animal, mute, a mere creature of all the forces that act upon me.

The religious hospitals would jeopardize their patients' lives rather than perform a medically necessary abortion is not mere speculation, it is documented fact.

Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

Death mattered not -- It was a mere puncutation

I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my heart.

Mere abuse is no criticism.

It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.

So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.

The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.

Mere administration can no longer be enough. Throughout the world, let us be permanently in a state of mission.

Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.

The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.