Mere Quotes

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Death has an opposite, but the opposite is not mere living. It is not courage or faith or human will. The opposite of death is… — Nando Parrado
My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more… — Euell Gibbons
Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of… — Wilhelm Reich
More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our cultureâ€™s relationship to nature. — Charles Eisenstein
Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over. — Israel Shamir
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truthâ€¦but only a problem of art is solved in… — Laura Riding
Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of… — Henry David Thoreau
Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. — Robin Sharma
If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. — C.S. Lewis
It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines, rustles, murmurs, crashes,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Efforts depend on individuals, but results rely on mere conditions. — Unknown Author
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention,… — Mary McCarthy
One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition of words.... To… — Swami Vivekananda
Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on himself. Now, as… — Phineas Quimby
Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another manâ€™s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder… — Charles Caleb Colton
He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized… — Ardant du Picq
Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and… — Boris Johnson
Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform. — Samuel Smiles
In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has… — Guy Debord

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