238 Mere Quotes for You to Enjoy

To qualify as a recession, economic activity must decline in an absolute sense; a mere slowdown in real growth is not enough. Edgar Fiedler

Sense Recession Enough Must Economic Economic Activity Absolute Mere Qualify Real Decline Activity Growth

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. Edmund Burke

Great Part Mere True Economy Essential May Essential Part Expense

Thrones, dominations, principalities know now with a terrible certainty that mere force of arms has no power which compares with that living word of the crucified Nazarene, that bears with it Eternal Life, and directs the duty of a world of men whom he can lead, but who bend no knee to power. Edward Everett Hale

Life World Word Men Power Duty Living Bend Bears Crucified Lead Knee He Mere Know Force Terrible Arms Which Eternal Eternal Life Certainty Who Compares Whom Now

Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe simple theories, and simplicity is the core of scientific beauty. Fascinating words have no power, nor yet any meaning, without the math. Eliezer Yudkowsky

Beautiful Science Words Simple Simplicity Power Beauty Unlike Comprehensible Never Mere Without Scientific Math Nor Truly Textbook Textbooks Any Meaning Theories Fascinating Describe Elementary Core

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark. Elihu Root

Faith Peace People Argument Fall Mark Favor General Mere Short Common Interchange Loving Public Convincing Reasons Assemblage

We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and cover more than a mere corner of the range. Ernest Thompson Seton

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions. Ethan A. Hitchcock

I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience. F. Sionil Jose

Music Passion Living Hundreds Russian Poetry Mere Feel Understand Audience Rhythm Lovers Urdu Roomful Warmth Pakistani

Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower. F. Sionil Jose

Ego Follower President Everyone Later No-One Leaders Mere Sooner Sooner Or Later Wants CEO Professional Chairman Societies Fractured

My character has to be alive. It can't be a mere prop, and it has to have a life of its own. I need to have that space to play around and the scope to interact with the people around me. That freedom would give me a lot of margin to improvise with. Fawad Khan

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished. Felix Baumgartner

Experience Will Extreme Once Record Mere Mission Another Sound Accomplished Jump Ends Break Breaking Barrier Event

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. Frank Wolf

People far too often associate derivatives markets with mere speculation, but there are very legitimate businesses that need derivatives to protect themselves against risk. Fred Ehrsam

People Too Markets Risk Mere Protect Very Often Legitimate Against Far Themselves Derivatives Businesses Associate Need Speculation

I know by experience that Jesus Christ is a very powerful spirit - I know by experience that he is probably the most powerful spirit in the universe. I know by experience he is not a mere human being. He is something beyond that. Frederica Mathewes-Green

Experience Human Being Christ Universe Spirit Something He Mere Powerful Beyond Know Most Most Powerful Very Human Being Jesus Jesus Christ

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious. Garrett Hardin

Values Economics Think Must Religious Threatens Ecology Mere Major However Opposition Than Held Roots Fundamental Deeper Widely

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. George Farquhar

Poetry Mere Sir

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory. Giuseppe Mazzini

Love Together Country Sense Sentiment Rises Only Mere Sons Idea Particular Fellowship Territory Which Binds Foundation

The frothing Trump-haters' extremism turns whatever criticism they have for the guy into mere parody. Greg Gutfeld

Criticism Whatever Extremism Guy Parody Mere Turns

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi. Gustav Mahler

Great You Will Men Few Live More Mere Feel Between Clearly Longer Learn Truly Few Men Difference Who

All that was once directly lived has become mere representation. Guy Debord

Become Once Directly Mere Representation Lived

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