Mere Quotes

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Good nature is often a mere matter of health. — Henry Ward Beecher
It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having… — George McGovern
The mere fact that you belong to a certain ethnic group makes you eternally guilty, according to the twisted logic of Zionism. If Germans who… — Ernst Zundel
It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that a… — David Horowitz
He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly… — C.S. Lewis
The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or… — Alan Watts
There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and… — David Bronstein
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put… — Mark Twain
It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal… — Mikhail Gorbachev
The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can kill so many… — Jonathan Schell
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. — James Clerk Maxwell
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads. — Stephen Gardiner
To a dog, motoring isn't just a way of getting from here to there, it's also a thrill and an adventure. The mere jingle of… — Jon Winokur
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it. — William James
Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the end when that… — Matthieu Ricard
The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man. — Madame de Stael
If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with… — Henry Ward Beecher
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. — William Butler Yeats
Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does… — Alfred North Whitehead
Without execution, thinking is mere idleness. — Winston Churchill
To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation. — Anita Brookner
In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned… — Peter Matthiessen
Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the… — Dr. An Wang
An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith. — Lloyd C. Douglas

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