From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Humor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond. — Stephen G. Post Copy Share Image
How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love? — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and,… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“What good is it to be a mere woman?” cried Esma, throwing her head back on the embroidered silk cushion. “To be… — Linda Lafferty Copy Share Image
Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master… One of the duties of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues,… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image