Mere Quotes · Page 22

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

— James Cash Penney

There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal,…

— Alan Watts

I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of…

— John Nelson Darby

Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every…

— Jane Porter

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

— Arthur Symons

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere…

— Joseph Campbell

I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I…

— Robert Charles Wilson

All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval…

— William Butler Yeats

Death has an opposite, but the opposite is not mere living. It is not courage or faith or human will. The opposite…

— Nando Parrado

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

— Sylvia Plath

Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be…

— John Angell James

Those subject to capital punishment are real human beings, with their own backgrounds and narratives. By contrast, those whose lives are or…

— Cass Sunstein

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

— Stephen G. Post

Consequently, theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the mind as emerging from the forces of living…

— Pope John Paul II

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— George Chapman

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

— William Bolitho

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Ellen Swallow Richards

One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of…

— George Santayana

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any…

— Thomas Jefferson

Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.

— Alexandra Stoddard

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

— Roy H. Williams

A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command…

— Daniel Hack Tuke

Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill…

— Joseph Story