Mere Quotes
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.
I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.
To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.
You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!
How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?
The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis
Faith Words arent just mere positive affirmations; they open your life up to the supernatural power of God.
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.
He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.
Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.
Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.
For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.
Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should require some "dreaming" time.
I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long.
From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.
Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.
Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.
Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.
Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.
Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.
Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.
Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth.
Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.
Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.
Does one get faith by mere studying of books? Too much reading creates confusion. The Master used to say that one should learn from the scriptures that God alone is real and the world illusory.