Mere Quotes

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A veil hangs between the two opposites, a mere slip of a thing that is transparent to warn us or comfort us. You hate now… — Cecelia Ahern
The thoughts that occur to me while Iâ€™m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go,… — Haruki Murakami
The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this… — Dallas Willard
I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the… — Oscar Wilde
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your lifeâ€™s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its… — Rabindranath Tagore
Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3) — Swami Satchidananda
When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come… — Oscar Wilde
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours,… — Virginia Woolf
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose… — Carl Jung
I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more. — Tabitha Suzuma
Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss it as mere… — Yukiru Sugisaki
I am a Stormdancer! Mere metal is nothing compared with the power of a storm." Kade made his voice boom and spread his arms wide.… — Maria V. Snyder
The students we saw were all bright, attractive, and polite, and the teachers all seemed to be smart and dedicated, and I began to appreciate… — Jeff Lindsay
One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121) — Edward Conze
Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit,… — Terry Pratchett
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.… — George Eliot
â€ŽA general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts… — John Stuart Mill
It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround… — John Pilger

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