In the Navy, I slept mere feet from a nuclear reactor, so I have no knee-jerk opposition to traditional reactors. — Joe Sestak Copy Share Image
I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie,… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void. — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations.… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The human community and individual people are more likely to hurt or undernourish children they think of as 'bodies' to be used.… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving and Christmas then, for us who love God, are not mere time outs from work days. They are a celebration of… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Of all the human values, three are most important. The foremost is love of God. Where there is love there is sacrifice.… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The mere knowledge of secrets will not help the amateur conjurer very far on the road to success. — David Devant Copy Share Image
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
“Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty... words… — Leanna Renee Hieber Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
A couple in love walking along the banks of the Seine are, in real fact, a couple in love walking along the… — Stuart Kauffman Copy Share Image
