Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers,… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
As relationships progress, the time you spend smooching diminishes. Where kissing was once an enjoyable entree unto itself, it becomes a mere… — Jenna McCarthy Copy Share Image
Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away;… — Walter Savage Landor 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
Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized. — Masao Abe Copy Share Image
Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Either the phone is so seriously thin and flimsy that it is bendable with mere physical force, which I cannot believe given… — Uri Geller Copy Share Image
If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
...[I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Sunspots and cosmic rays have a 79 percent correlation with our thermometer record since 1860. Meanwhile the CO2 correlation is a mere 22 percent. — Dennis T. Avery Copy Share Image
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image