Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The love of God is no mere sentimental feeling; it is redemptive power! — Charles Clayton Morrison Copy Share Image
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. — John Updike Copy Share Image
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger. — Lucan Copy Share Image
We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great. — Wilt Chamberlain Copy Share Image
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
About 70% of those released from prison return within a few years, and the majority of those who return in some states… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
In the gospel of Jesus, sincere and costly discipleship always accompanies genuine conversion. The gospel of Jesus teaches men that a mere… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate… — Henry Bessemer 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
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their… — Plato Copy Share Image
Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it.… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words. — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Noooo, there’s no way I, a mere handsome and sexy shopkeeper, could possibly have bankai! — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves. — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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