Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over. — Israel Shamir Copy Share Image
Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.” — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
America is a mere bully, from one end to the other, and the Bostonians by far the greatest bullies. — Thomas Gage 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
Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation… — Thomas Nixon Carver Copy Share Image
We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Innumerable conditions must be exquisitely optimized for the support of humanity and of civilization. Many of them are highly time variable. Evidence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I see a violation of human rights not in the mere fact that people don't have enough to eat and that they… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of… — Confucius Copy Share Image
In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
One of the things that any kind of studies bring out is that the mere act of schooling - getting together, the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul… — Oliver Joseph Lodge 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
Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life. — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
