Quotes about Mere

Mere abuse is no criticism. Votes: 3

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. Votes: 3

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step. Votes: 3

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all. Votes: 3

Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear. Votes: 3

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority. Votes: 3

Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose. Votes: 3

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. Votes: 3

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam. Votes: 3

Mere hope isn't enough to change destiny. One must act. Votes: 3

Mere form without substance must collapse of its own weight. Votes: 3

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people Votes: 3

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. Votes: 3

Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. Votes: 3

Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all. Votes: 3

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown. Votes: 3

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict. Votes: 3

If Mere Christianity helps make Christianity comprehensible, Orthodoxy makes it weird again. Votes: 3

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere . Votes: 3

Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality. Votes: 3

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself. Votes: 3

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. Votes: 3

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence. Votes: 3

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached. Votes: 3

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction. Votes: 3

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed. Votes: 3

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. Votes: 3

Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings. Votes: 3

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process. Votes: 3

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing. Votes: 3

Mere administration can no longer be enough. Throughout the world, let us be permanently in a state of mission. Votes: 3

Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. Votes: 3

Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows. Votes: 3

Mere nails, though pounded deep, were not enough to keep Jesus on the cross. But love was... and love prevailed. Votes: 3

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light. Votes: 3

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. Votes: 3

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. Votes: 3

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. Votes: 3

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis Votes: 3

Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best. Votes: 3

People can die of mere imagination. Votes: 2

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. Votes: 2

The mere imparting of information is not education. Votes: 2

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. Votes: 2

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. Votes: 2

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. Votes: 2

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. Votes: 2

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Votes: 2

Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together. Votes: 2

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. Votes: 2

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. Votes: 2

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free. Votes: 2

The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion. Votes: 2

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. Votes: 2

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. Votes: 2

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy. Votes: 2

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question. Votes: 2

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth. Votes: 2

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought. Votes: 2

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. Votes: 2

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder. Votes: 2

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. Votes: 2

The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick. Votes: 2

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding. Votes: 2

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. Votes: 2

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' Votes: 2

Everything is mere opinion. Votes: 0

Slogans are mere wordsuck... Votes: 0

The calendar? A mere convention ... Votes: 0

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir. Votes: 0

Words, without power, is mere philosophy. Votes: 0

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can. Votes: 0

Do not judge from mere appearances... Votes: 0

We are mere bundles of habits. Votes: 0

Without execution, thinking is mere idleness. Votes: 0

Made poetry a mere mechanic art. Votes: 0

A mere society form of Atheism. Votes: 0

But are they heroes or mere dreamers? Votes: 0

People who expect deference resent mere civility. Votes: 0

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking! Votes: 0

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. Votes: 0

Religion is behavior and not mere belief. Votes: 0

How good is life, the mere living! Votes: 0

Religion is a mere question of geography. Votes: 0

History without politics descends to mere Literature. Votes: 0

Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase. Votes: 0

Strength without agility is a mere mass. Votes: 0

Honor, without money, is a mere malady. Votes: 0

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities. Votes: 0

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Votes: 0

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved. Votes: 0

War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity. Votes: 0

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking. Votes: 0

No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice. Votes: 0

Automatic praise is a mere succession of noises. Votes: 0

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom. Votes: 0

The mere absence of war is not peace. Votes: 0

Why, play we, these games of mere men? Votes: 0

You are my mere jaan, my life, Kelsey Hayes. Votes: 0

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation. Votes: 0

Perhaps...I could not be content with mere contentment! Votes: 0

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence. Votes: 0

A mere nothing suffices "” and the lightning strikes. Votes: 0

I do not give money for just mere hopes. Votes: 0

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness. Votes: 0

Women aren't as mere as they used to be. Votes: 0

Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters. Votes: 0

Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. Votes: 0

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob. Votes: 0

Death mattered not -- It was a mere puncutation Votes: 0

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage. Votes: 0

There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria Votes: 0

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. Votes: 0

Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I'm a mere mortal. Votes: 0

Good nature is often a mere matter of health. Votes: 0

The difference between mere management and leadership is communication. Votes: 0

The mere passage of time makes us all exiles. Votes: 0

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion. Votes: 0

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy. Votes: 0

Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living. Votes: 0

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history. Votes: 0

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. Votes: 0

The mere pronunciation of the word luxurious feels lush, luxuriant. Votes: 0

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences. Votes: 0

It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness Votes: 0

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. Votes: 0

Efforts depend on individuals, but results rely on mere conditions. Votes: 0

The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise. Votes: 0

All that was once directly lived has become mere representation. Votes: 0

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition. Votes: 0

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation. Votes: 0

A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias. Votes: 0

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light. Votes: 0

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Votes: 0

All those who are not racially pure are mere chaff. Votes: 0

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most. Votes: 0

People knowledge is much more important than mere product knowledge. Votes: 0

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence. Votes: 0

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. Votes: 0

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization. Votes: 0

It requires more than mere genius to be an author. Votes: 0

African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance. Votes: 0

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. Votes: 0

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. Votes: 0

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer. Votes: 0

A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries. Votes: 0

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all. Votes: 0

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be. Votes: 0

Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge. Votes: 0

Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust. Votes: 0

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation. Votes: 0

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. Votes: 0

We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest. Votes: 0

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Votes: 0

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? Votes: 0

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. Votes: 0

The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition Votes: 0

In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories. Votes: 0

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. Votes: 0

Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God. Votes: 0

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it. Votes: 0

Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait. Votes: 0

Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science. Votes: 0

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God. Votes: 0

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology. Votes: 0

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke Votes: 0

Being in war itself is a gallant, awards are mere decorations. Votes: 0

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination. Votes: 0

Tut, tut. We can't let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science. Votes: 0

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers. Votes: 0

The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use. Votes: 0

The mere possibility provides no warrant for denying what I clearly grasp. Votes: 0

But instability like mine needs considerable distance to pass for mere quirkiness. Votes: 0

Universal emptiness is mere concept.The fact is, there was never emptiness. Votes: 0

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident. Votes: 0

Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it. Votes: 0

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure. Votes: 0

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action. Votes: 0

His attention felt more like an irrepressible gravitational pull than mere interest. Votes: 0

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can. Votes: 0

How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love? Votes: 0

Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture. Votes: 0

Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana. Votes: 0

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude. Votes: 0

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. Votes: 0

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain. Votes: 0

This item is a mere fleabite in the ocean of our expenditure. Votes: 0

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage. Votes: 0

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly. Votes: 0

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed. Votes: 0

It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves. Votes: 0

I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it. Votes: 0

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. Votes: 0

At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism. Votes: 0

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan. Votes: 0

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Votes: 0

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. Votes: 0

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. Votes: 0

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor... Votes: 0

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

Jesus died for your sins. I'm doing it for your mere entertainment dollar. Votes: 0

By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward. Votes: 0

You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream Votes: 0

Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly. Votes: 0

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. Votes: 0

Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment. Votes: 0

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness. Votes: 0

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. Votes: 0

Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow. Votes: 0

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. Votes: 0

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion ... Votes: 0

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Votes: 0

We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them. Votes: 0

The love of God is no mere sentimental feeling; it is redemptive power! Votes: 0

The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances. Votes: 0

One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident. Votes: 0

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion. Votes: 0

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. Votes: 0

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes. Votes: 0

In the mere observation of yourself, you begin the process of healing and transformation. Votes: 0

When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile. Votes: 0

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal. Votes: 0

Teenagers are like cats - they have important business that doesn't involve mere humans. Votes: 0

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability... it is energy. Votes: 0

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation. Votes: 0

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease. Votes: 0

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony. Votes: 0

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading. Votes: 0

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament. Votes: 0

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. Votes: 0

Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration. Votes: 0

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence. Votes: 0

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men. Votes: 0

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy. Votes: 0

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. Votes: 0

Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication. Votes: 0

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter. Votes: 0

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory. Votes: 0

If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress. Votes: 0

Dreams, they're what sets us apart from being mere a brain and a body. Votes: 0

When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding. Votes: 0

How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for. Votes: 0

Creativity is rich with unexpected possibility. Know-how is mere fragmented mechanics which lacks tradition. Votes: 0

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. Votes: 0

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. Votes: 0

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. Votes: 0

The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. Votes: 0

Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England. Votes: 0

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge. Votes: 0

Your personal dignity was always more important to you than mere emotion, wasn't it? Votes: 0

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life. Votes: 0

Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing. Votes: 0

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man. Votes: 0

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness. Votes: 0

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos. Votes: 0

We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness. Votes: 0

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon. Votes: 0

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. Votes: 0

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears. Votes: 0

Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness. Votes: 0

Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. Votes: 0

Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. Votes: 0

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. Votes: 0

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless. Votes: 0

Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind. Votes: 0

The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology. Votes: 0

Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance Votes: 0

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence. Votes: 0

The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow. Votes: 0

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing. Votes: 0

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier. Votes: 0

There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist Votes: 0

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things. Votes: 0

Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life. Votes: 0

Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy! Votes: 0

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. Votes: 0

We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great. Votes: 0

All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence. Votes: 0

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact. Votes: 0

The mere presence of PASSION within you is all you need to fulfill your DREAMS. Votes: 0

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea Votes: 0

There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering. Votes: 0

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth? Votes: 0

To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well. Votes: 0

Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life. Votes: 0

The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God. Votes: 0

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want. Votes: 0

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event. Votes: 0

It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live. Votes: 0

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home. Votes: 0

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights. Votes: 0

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea. Votes: 0

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show Votes: 0

I was just a mere mortal and he was a god. I never stood a chance. Votes: 0

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. Votes: 0

One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121) Votes: 0

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? Votes: 0

Ages are mere reminders of the hours logged on this earth and the precious time remaining. Votes: 0

for the mere act of thinking a course expedient, when it is morally wrong, is demoralizing Votes: 0

Let's commit ourselves to being true disciples of Jesus Christ. Not mere fair-weather followers, but disciples. Votes: 0

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value. Votes: 0

Instead of an unhinged lunatic you may glimpse a punctured soul-a mere human being like you. Votes: 0

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. Votes: 0

Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying. Votes: 0

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence. Votes: 0

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. Votes: 0

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. Votes: 0

Saying "I feel guilty" is a mere form of words. Saying "I feel ashamed" is not. Votes: 0

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. Votes: 0

The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures. Votes: 0

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore. Votes: 0

Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument. Votes: 0

Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort. Votes: 0

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute. Votes: 0

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power. Votes: 0

Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone. Votes: 0

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. Votes: 0

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. Votes: 0

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation. Votes: 0

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game. Votes: 0

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable. Votes: 0

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. Votes: 0

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss. Votes: 0

I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity. Votes: 0

In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence. Votes: 0

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. Votes: 0

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. Votes: 0

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience. Votes: 0

Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics. Votes: 0

It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. Votes: 0

Relationships tend to be flawed because they are made up of inherently flawed components, mere human beings. Votes: 0

Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him. Votes: 0

Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview. Votes: 0

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. Votes: 0

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience. Votes: 0

The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water. Votes: 0

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger. Votes: 0

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Votes: 0

Always keep in mind that even your most dreadful expectations, are still nothing more than mere assumptions Votes: 0

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. Votes: 0

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. Votes: 0

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. Votes: 0

It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul. Votes: 0

Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise. Votes: 0

Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind. Votes: 0

Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself. Votes: 0

The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail. Votes: 0

Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in. Votes: 0

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle. Votes: 0

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting. Votes: 0

Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them. Votes: 0

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans. Votes: 0

From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed. Votes: 0

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available. Votes: 0

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand. Votes: 0

Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives. Votes: 0

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine. Votes: 0

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. Votes: 0

Faith Words arent just mere positive affirmations; they open your life up to the supernatural power of God. Votes: 0

Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism. Votes: 0

Noooo, there's no way I, a mere handsome and sexy shopkeeper, could possibly have bankai!" — Urahara Kisuke Votes: 0

Faith Words aren't just mere positive affirmations; they open your life up to the supernatural power of God. Votes: 0

Talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is to such thing. It is mere a matter of craftsmanship. Votes: 0

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism. Votes: 0

It's not love at first sight, it's having the sight, to distinguish true love, from just mere beauty. Votes: 0

Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts. Votes: 0

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life. Votes: 0

Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over. Votes: 0

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands. Votes: 0

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding. Votes: 0

The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods. Votes: 0

An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith. Votes: 0

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. Votes: 0

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words. Votes: 0

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality. Votes: 0

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me. Votes: 0

We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing. Votes: 0

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven. Votes: 0

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree. Votes: 0

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience. Votes: 0

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts. Votes: 0

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads. Votes: 0

Humor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond. Votes: 0

The mere knowledge of secrets will not help the amateur conjurer very far on the road to success. Votes: 0

With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another. Votes: 0

Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. Votes: 0

God has invited us, as mere human beings, to add to the beauty of his plan and creation Votes: 0

Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar. Votes: 0

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar. Votes: 0

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. Votes: 0

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience. Votes: 0

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. Votes: 0

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes. Votes: 0

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. Votes: 0

The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color. Votes: 0

The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure. Votes: 0

The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things. Votes: 0

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life. Votes: 0

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits. Votes: 0

I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife. Votes: 0

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection. Votes: 0

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal. Votes: 0

Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature. Votes: 0

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book. Votes: 0

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience. Votes: 0

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head. Votes: 0

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge. Votes: 0

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship. Votes: 0

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. Votes: 0

Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates. Votes: 0

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance. Votes: 0

Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula. Votes: 0

I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart. Votes: 0

And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words. Votes: 0

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. Votes: 0

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. Votes: 0

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness. Votes: 0

To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul. Votes: 0

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past. Votes: 0

The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality. Votes: 0

America is a mere bully, from one end to the other, and the Bostonians by far the greatest bullies. Votes: 0

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist Votes: 0

The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it. Votes: 0

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. Votes: 0

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison. Votes: 0

The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins. Votes: 0

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God Votes: 0

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further. Votes: 0

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope. Votes: 0

When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee. Votes: 0

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them. Votes: 0

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot. Votes: 0

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. Votes: 0

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. Votes: 0

What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life. Votes: 0

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life. Votes: 0

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility. Votes: 0

Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals. Votes: 0

Deny my individuality and I become an animal, mute, a mere creature of all the forces that act upon me. Votes: 0

The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write. Votes: 0

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke. Votes: 0

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. Votes: 0

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness. Votes: 0

The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste. Votes: 0

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations. Votes: 0

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. Votes: 0

If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock? Votes: 0

It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. Votes: 0

All that you have been is but a small part, a very mere bit of the potential of your life. Votes: 0

Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. Votes: 0

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience. Votes: 0

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature. Votes: 0

In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Votes: 0

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. Votes: 0

Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life. Votes: 0

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last. Votes: 0

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life. Votes: 0

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes. Votes: 0

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone. Votes: 0

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days. Votes: 0

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. Votes: 0

Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances. Votes: 0

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence. Votes: 0

My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul. Votes: 0

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being. Votes: 0

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said! Votes: 0

As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place. Votes: 0

The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces. Votes: 0

We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I. Votes: 0

The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I please. Votes: 0

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted. Votes: 0

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune. Votes: 0

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it. Votes: 0

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all. Votes: 0

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys. Votes: 0

You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets! Votes: 0

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Votes: 0

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading. Votes: 0

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age. Votes: 0

If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer. Votes: 0

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. Votes: 0

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to. Votes: 0

The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them. Votes: 0

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft. Votes: 0

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Votes: 0

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words. Votes: 0

The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank. To dwell is to garden. Votes: 0

Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth. Votes: 0

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part. Votes: 0

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm. Votes: 0

The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good. Votes: 0

I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more. Votes: 0

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that! Votes: 0

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! Votes: 0

Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value. Votes: 0

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. Votes: 0

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad. Votes: 0

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit. Votes: 0

Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0