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Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
— Barry Goldwater
Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.
— H.P. Lovecraft
The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.
— William Shakespeare
With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another.
— Jorge Luis Borges
We are the result of our mere actions. What we do, we become.
— Santosh Kalwar
A mere love of wisdom is often enough to make oneself wiser.
— Raheel Farooq
Sunspots and cosmic rays have a 79 percent correlation with our thermometer record since 1860. Meanwhile the CO2 correlation is a mere 22 percent.
— Dennis T. Avery
Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.
— Franz Grillparzer
The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
— Annette Funicello
History without politics descends to mere Literature.
— John Robert Seeley
Life is a mere reflection of how you see it.
— Joanne Crisner Alcayaga
It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
— Nikola Tesla
A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.
— Simeon Strunsky
Ill-Success failed to crush us: the mere effort to succeed had given a wonderful zest to existence; it must be pursued.
— Charlotte Bronte
What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show
— James A. Garfield
We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
— Terence McKenna
It must have been worth while having a mere ordinary plague now and then in London to get rid of both the lawyers and the Parliament.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Words are mere tools of the mind
— Joshua Wright
They knew that mere appearance and disappearance are on the surface like waves on the sea, but life which is permanent knows no decay or diminution.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Living does mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case, mere possibilities of improvement.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty ... words ever determine lives.
— Leanna Renee Hieber
Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.
— Martin Amis
Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.
— Moses Finley
Mere abuse is no criticism.
— P.G. Wodehouse
The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition
— Vladimir Nabokov
It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
We don't share IceWing secrets with mere RainWings, haughty sniff.
— Tui T. Sutherland
We're really good at it, Teppic thought. Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. I
— Terry Pratchett
I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The mere ambition to write a poem is enough to kill it.
— Henri Michaux
CORV: Honour! tut, a breath: There's no such thing, in nature: a mere term Invented to awe fools.
— Ben Jonson
Mere acquisition isn't enough to establish a good habit
— Gretchen Rubin
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
— Aristophanes
Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.
— Terry Pratchett
A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.
— Shomei Tomatsu
I craved him, like an opium addict craved the pipe: the sound of his voice, the touch of his hand, his mere presence in the same room.
— Jordan L. Hawk
The Western hero, subdued by kisses and the mere tease of rope.
— Rachel Kramer Bussel
Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.
— W. Edwards Deming
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.
— Dennis Prager
The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
In a population of hundreds of millions, such a small number of people is a mere drop in the bucket ... but enough drops can make any bucket overflow
— Neal Shusterman
The mere possibility provides no warrant for denying what I clearly grasp.
— William Lane Craig
Through the mere act of creating something - anything - you might inadvertently produce work that is magnificent, eternal, or important
— Elizabeth Gilbert
In literature mere egotism is delightful.
— Oscar Wilde
Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.
— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
— Samuel Johnson
Grateful people learn to celebrate even amid life's hard and harrowing memories because they know that pruning is no mere punishment, but preparation.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
The genesis of life, unfold before us, the mere essence of our being ... ... tarnished.Mankind can no longer survive on its own. — Robin Alleyna
Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. - C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY
— Sheila Walsh
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
— Edmund Burke
It is a mere needless thing to fight with ignorance with all your true strength except you can educate and change ignorance with wit and wisdom
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence - Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon.
— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.
— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.
— Jeremiah Seed
Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.
— Margaret Fuller
Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.
— Matthew Syed
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Have your dream ... What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)
— Haruki Murakami
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
— D.H. Lawrence
As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.
— Alison Croggon
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
— Woodrow Wilson
Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection.
— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
She could fade and wither- I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.
— Vinoba Bhave
Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A book was mere paper splattered with ink until a reader's mind gave it life.
— Elizabeth Langston
The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.
— Tim Winton
Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The mere will to live was clearly no match for the pains and aggravations that punctuate the life of the average Western man.
— Michel Houellebecq
A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
To put it succinctly: description without prescription is the germ of resignation, and prescription without description is mere whim.
— Reza Negarestani
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
— Woodrow Wilson
Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.
— Joseph Butler
