Mere Quotes - page 11

Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him, a gift crafted deliberately, compassionately, for him and Phil. Joyful and grateful in the midst of slow dying, the two men bathed in that day until sunset brought is, and their time in the doldrums, to an end. (Laura Hillenbrand)
I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words. View quote
Leopold Sedar Senghor
An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith. View quote
Lloyd C. Douglas
A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes. View quote
Lucien Febvre
Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure. View quote
Robert Baden-Powell
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny. View quote
Henry James Sumner Maine
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? View quote
Ellen Glasgow
A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment. View quote
Jessica Mitford
Noooo, there's no way I, a mere handsome and sexy shopkeeper, could possibly have bankai!” - Urahara Kisuke. View quote
Tite Kubo
Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head. View quote
Henry Kirke White
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process. (Thurgood Marshall)
At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil. View quote
Armstrong Williams
The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless. View quote
Bianca Jagger
Faith Words arent just mere positive affirmations; they open your life up to the supernatural power of God. View quote
Bo Sanchez
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. View quote
Brian Ferneyhough
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue. View quote
Benjamin Haydon
When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile. View quote
Charles Frohman
I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop. View quote
Christopher Darden
Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male? View quote
Carol P. Christ
My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results. View quote
Frank R. Wolf
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. (Goswami Kriyananda)
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact. View quote
Henry Mayhew
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. View quote
James MacGregor Burns
So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain joyousness in life which should be in playing, then good for one, but it's slightly more serious than that. View quote
Janet Suzman
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body. View quote
Johann Arndt