Mere Quotes

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Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is… — Alister E. McGrath
And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning,… — Alan Watts
In the early morning hours, Hannah read at the table by the dim light of dawn. She leaned in close to the pages, chin resting… — Matthew J. Kirby
And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul to… — Lisa Kleypas
The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would… — C.S. Lewis
Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us… — Marc Bekoff
The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs,… — Martin Luther
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray… — Charles Dickens
I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten. — Anne Frank
Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and… — Eiji Yoshikawa
No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I… — Anne Bronte
What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a… — Robert Stone
When it comes to such open-heart reflection, I'm a firm believer in the observer effect, which states that anything you try to observe is automatically… — Neal Shusterman
Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner stuff? — Karen Marie Moning
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating your race that… — Karen Marie Moning
Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are I've assigned myself a new obligation.… — Muriel Barbery
They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to… — Tim O'Brien
Aw, no. You’re taking us to that vegetarian place, aren’t you? It’s a coffee place. You can’t just automatically classify anything that isn’t a steak… — Kevin Hearne
A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory. — China Mieville
If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more… — Sherwood Smith
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. — C.S. Lewis
Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten… — Richard Dawkins
For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him. — Julie Garwood
No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have… — H.G. Wells

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