My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's really not rocket science. If animals are not mere things; if they have moral value, we cannot justify eating, wearing, or… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“One person with a divine purpose, passion and power is better than 99 people who are merely interested. Passion is stronger than interest.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly,… — Enoch Copy Share Image
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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
Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot… — George Soros Copy Share Image
We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time. In broad daylight, and at most seasons I am apt to… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgments by it? Alas!… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
One and all We lend an ear-nay, Science takes thereto- Encourages the meanest who has racked Nature until he gains from her… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf.… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image