Mere Quotes

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Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the… — Viktor E. Frankl
A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem… — Adrian Desmond
The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror,… — Bernard Herrmann
The thing no one tells you about surviving, about the mere act of holding out, is how many hours are nothing because nothing happens. They… — Courtney Summers
Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large. His art is… — William Walsh
Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. — Muriel Barbery
For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the… — Muhammad Asad
To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear… — Criss Jami
Travel is the realm of the impossible adventures, the quick fix, the ship passing in the night. Â It entitles you to meet interesting people, whom… — Lawrence Millman
For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would… — James A. Garfield
all which isn't singing is mere talking ... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of(as mountains feel and lovers)singing is silence — E E Cummings
I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as… — C.S. Lewis
The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched… — C.S. Lewis
We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them. — C.S. Lewis
As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee,… — Charles Caleb Colton
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head,… — William Hazlitt
When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from… — William Hazlitt
The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in… — William Hazlitt
Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For… — John Dryden

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