Mere Quotes
At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil
What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?
Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.
A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances.
The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.
It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.
The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.
The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.
Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.
The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas - in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude.
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
America is a mere bully, from one end to the other, and the Bostonians by far the greatest bullies.
One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.
The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.
I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.
Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.
Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.
My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility
Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.
Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
The doubters are always more blessed than the mere fellow travelers in faith. For they are the only ones who fully learn that their Lord is stronger than any doubt and any hell of despair.