Mere Quotes · Page 8

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Ganjeena-e-manee ka tilism usko samajhey, Jo lafz ke Ghalib mere ashaar mein aaway.”

— Hasan Suhail Siddiqui

It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.

— P. G. Wodehouse

No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

— Charles Lamb

A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.

— Wallace Thurman

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

— Anita Brookner

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.

— William Dean Howells

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once…

— Felix Baumgartner

Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics.

— Jennifer Young

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

— Tim Winton

A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never…

— Adrian Desmond

Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.

— R. C. Sproul

The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the…

— Bianca Jagger

Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone…

— Terry Pratchett

all which isn't singing is mere talking ... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of(as mountains feel and…

— e. e. cummings

Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging,…

— Michael Jackson

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a…

— Terry Eagleton

So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain…

— Janet Suzman

Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred…

— M. F. K. Fisher

In this deed is my hope, not in the mere timeless fact that God is love. I am saved not by the…

— Peter Kreeft

Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it…

— Thomas Jefferson

I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a…

— Bernard Herrmann

Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in…

— Lewis Mumford

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the…

— James Russell Lowell

...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly…

— Mark Twain

I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about…

— Vera Brittain

Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness,…

— William Ellery Channing

Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows…

— Jacob Bronowski

Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

— John Selden

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

— Andrew Jackson

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

— Samuel Johnson

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.

— Wilt Chamberlain

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

— Guy Debord

Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.

— Vinoba Bhave