Mere Quotes

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You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind… — C.S. Lewis
Harry felt winded, as though he had just walked into something heavy. He had last seen those cool gray eyes through slits in a Death… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in… — C.S. Lewis
Why let your fury lay deep inside you, sullenly boiling your blood into silent steam and griding your bones to dust? I it not better… — Henry Rollins
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis — C.S. Lewis
Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot… — E. O. Wilson
She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she… — Virginia Woolf
Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited… — Karen Armstrong
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others… — Nelson Mandela
Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing. — Sonia Sotomayor
There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes… — Napoleon Hill
The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition — Vladimir Nabokov
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history… — Muhammad Iqbal
I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake… — Anais Nin
Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all… — Winston Churchill
The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and… — David Gerrold
In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right… — Aristotle
I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long. — Sam Walton
Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a… — Aristotle
If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents… — Jules Henry

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