Mere Quotes

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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 — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — 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 grudge—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 peace—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
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to… — David Hume
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of… — Rick Yancey
The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a… — C.S. Lewis
It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions… — John B. S. Haldane
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. — John Ruskin
Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably… — Mary Balogh
I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere… — William Shakespeare
When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is… — Carl Jung
We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our… — Elizabeth Gilbert
She couldn't believe what she did then. Before she could stop herself, she leaned up on tiptoes, put her arms around his neck, and kissed… — Julie Garwood

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