Mere Quotes

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After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of… — Christopher Paolini
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain. — Thomas Hardy
Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can… — Nick Hornby
While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that… — Jhumpa Lahiri
World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion. — Dalai Lama
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic… — Oscar Wilde
Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of… — H. L. Mencken
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon… — William Butler Yeats
Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue… — Viktor E. Frankl
How strange to have failed as a social creatureâ€”even criminals do not fail that wayâ€”they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his… — Milan Kundera
But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that… — Joseph Campbell
You donâ€™t think â€“ not possibly â€“ not as a mere hundredth chance â€“ there might be things that are real though we canâ€™t see… — C.S. Lewis
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. — Jane Smiley
Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept… — Edith Wharton
I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels… — Pat Conroy
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half… — Henry James
There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are… — Bruno Schulz
We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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