Mere Quotes
The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.
As more and more architecture is finally unmasked as the mere organization of flow - shopping centers, airports - it is evident that circulation is what makes or breaks public architecture.
How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors?
My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.
The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color.
Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.
This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
The summit is the mere formality, the ceremonial demonstration of what was agreed to long ago, weeks, months before the summit.
Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.
We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.
We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans to our society.
Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.
I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.
I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.
Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.
Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.
What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.
Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.
If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?
We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.
And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.
The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.
The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.
When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
