Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Don't go empty handed when going to a temple or to see a spiritual master. Offer something as a symbol of surrender,… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
In the tale proper--where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident--mere construction is,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
The doubters are always more blessed than the mere fellow travelers in faith. For they are the only ones who fully learn… — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Saying I feel guilty is a mere form of words. Saying I feel ashamed is not. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I push back against a deeply-entrenched tendency in American culture to label quickly and no longer even examine the labels that were… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to… — William Morris Copy Share Image
The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
The mere idea of asking a family member if they intentionally stopped sending me an annual bonus makes me feel like breaking… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Something can be symbolic without being a mere stand-in or vessel, which just brings us away from the true mystery and dread,… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Realism to be effective must be a matter of selection.genius chooses its materials with a view to their beauty and effectiveness; mere… — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
How would you describe the spiritual aroma of your home? The source of this aroma is the relationship between husband and wife.… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
