Mere Quotes

1764 quotes by 1160 authors

...she could express her soul with that voice, whenver I listened to her I felt my life meant more than mere biology...she could really hear,… — Audrey Niffenegger
Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were in a previous… — Chuck Klosterman
The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of… — Henry David Thoreau
Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that… — Lynsay Sands
I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. — Arthur Conan Doyle
In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up… — C.S. Lewis
A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Surely you donâ€™t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You donâ€™t really suppose, do you, that all your… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing… — V.S. Naipaul
It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to… — Jerome K. Jerome
Noooo, thereâ€™s no way I, a mere handsome and sexy shopkeeper, could possibly have bankai!â€ â€” Urahara Kisuke — Tite Kubo
If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the… — Martin Luther
Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate… — Adolf Hitler
It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with… — Oscar Wilde
In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence… — Albert Camus
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State,… — Theodore Roosevelt
You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live… — George MacDonald
And what I was feeling was the wonder Of being more than me, of being more Than mere here and now allowed I had become… — Walter Dean Myers

Who Wrote These Mere Quotes

1,160 authors contributed a total of 1,764 Mere Quotes, led by these top contributors: