Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life. — Cato the Elder Copy Share Image
A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds… — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of… — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an… — Simeon Strunsky Copy Share Image
May we not have a picture of Christ, who has a true body? By no means; because, though he has a true… — James Fisher Copy Share Image
Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest,… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Radical Forgiveness is much more than the mere letting go of the past. It is the key to creating the life that… — Colin Tipping Copy Share Image
Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed… — Jack H. Goaslind Copy Share Image
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
