Mere Quotes

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This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are… — Robertson Davies
The mere telling of how a need was met is often like telling of a need, which is asking crookedly instead of straight out. But… — Amy Carmichael
I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening,… — Catherynne M. Valente
I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones,… — Henry David Thoreau
Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self.… — Vera Nazarian
To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition… — Marcel Proust
God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere… — Mario Puzo
The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have… — Wendell Berry
It is said that boys fall in love with their eyes, because they can be initially struck to their very core by a girl's mere… — L.A. Meyer
If life â€” the craving for which is the very essence of our being â€” were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be… — Arthur Schopenhauer
WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM? "Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?" NO "Oh, come on. You can't… — Terry Pratchett
I have in this War a burning private grudgeâ€”which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language… — Alexandre Dumas
[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the… — Tom Wolfe
I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything… — Vladimir Nabokov
Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is… — H.G. Wells
Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand) — Haruki Murakami
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. — William Shakespeare
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peaceâ€”business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind. — Lauren Oliver

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