Mere Quotes

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My dowry is thirty-five. A year.â€ His brows climbed. â€œYouâ€™re joking.â€ â€œI would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just imagine, in a… — Shana Abe
Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about… — Deepak Chopra
I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size. I love the… — Susan Hill
There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers,… — C.S. Lewis
Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it… — Leo Tolstoy
You may think you don't want to throw your life away for mere fleeting euphoria. But, once you get a taste, it doesn't feel so… — Jerry Stahl
The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an… — C.S. Lewis
In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can… — Ian Mcewan
My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas. Pray… — Frances Hardinge
Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was… — John Green
We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so,… — Jonathan Sacks
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours… — C.S. Lewis
Mere animals couldnâ€™t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. — Terry Pratchett
The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by… — Annie Dillard
You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream — Charlotte Bronte
Sam could not help but be pleased. "So. Astrid needs me." Brianna rolled her eyes. "Yeah, Sam, you're still necessary. You're like a god to… — Michael Grant
Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart,… — Og Mandino
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing — Jane Austen

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