Merest Quotes
37 Merest quotes by 34 unique authors
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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
— Douglas Adams
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How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the…
— Richard Burton
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You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge…
— Unknown Author
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Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
— Annie Dillard
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In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one's been hit in…
— Julia Quinn
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It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
— Percy Williams Bridgman
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To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it…
— Clifford Geertz
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Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the…
— Celia Thaxter
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A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.
— Emily Post
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Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.
— Isaac Barrow
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The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along the edges, (as…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic…
— Patrick Kavanagh
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Then what am I - the body substance which I can see with my eyes and feel with my hands? Or am I this realization,…
— Charles Lindbergh
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We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a copsewood dreams of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.
— Honore de Balzac
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You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how…
— Claude Monet
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
— Friedrich Schiller
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The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole…
— Lysander Spooner
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Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking…
— Bryce Courtenay
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There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin…
— Judith Martin
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The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is…
— Philip K. Dick
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
— Franz Kafka
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Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; —…
— Anthony Trollope
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