Merest Quotes

37 quotes by 34 authors

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
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
The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razorâ€™s edge, sharper than a houndâ€™s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is… — Philip K. Dick
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith. — Franz Kafka
Little bits of things make me do it; â€” perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; â€”… — Anthony Trollope
The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans,… — Terry Pratchett
Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser,… — Douglas Adams
Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest… — Rafael Sabatini
I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep… — Annie Dillard
His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
...Nameless, unknown to me as you were, I couldn't forget your voice!' 'For how long?' 'O - ever so long. Days and days.' 'Days and… — Thomas Hardy
Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are… — Wallace Stegner
As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface… — Joseph Campbell
God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are… — Saint Francis de Sales
I HAVE AND ALWAYS WILL LOVE U AUSTIN. SO WILL EMMA AND HAYLEY AND TYLER AND CLAIRE. LAST NIGHT ME AND TYLER CRIED OVER U… — Abygail
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one… — James Thurber

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