238 Mere Quotes for You to Enjoy

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. Miguel de Cervantes

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If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities. Orison Swett Marden

Dreams Achieve Meet Our Our Dreams Ourselves Out Something Mere Sincere Make Within Which Realities Them Deep Helps Desires

The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment. Orison Swett Marden

The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any more than a study of silicon, copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program. Paul Davies

Life Alone Logical Will Chemistry Way Way Life Complex Silicon Structure More Computer Mere Study Execute Involves How Than Any Information Explain Plastic Origin Therefore Differs Copper Fundamentally Program

I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations. Placido Domingo

Natural Singing Satisfied Melting Constantly Blacks Charm Voice Could Colored Colors Never Had Mere Primary Combinations Subtly Again Bursting Realized Then Less Paint Expressing

For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence. Polybius

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My mere existence as a member of Congress as a Palestinian causes a lot of fear, because I'm here as a human being, as an American, that is saying to the world that we exist. Rashida Tlaib

Saying Human Being World Fear Congress Member Mere Because Causes Exist Existence Lot American Human Being Palestinian Here

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age. Reed Hastings

Technology Age People Progress Internet Will Long Seen Back Say Has-Been Fact Computers Mere Know Look Been Years Human In Fact Story Ingredient Human Progress Now Internet Age

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. Richard Owen

Nature Man Stage Case Physiological Mere Study Mission Powers Operations Scientific Inevitably His Very Psychological Aspirations Origin Necessity Raise

Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self image, world image, and God image, and thus reframing your entire reality. Mere inspiration can never do this. Richard Rohr

God You Reality World Giving Entire About More Shaking Inspiration Self Never Mere Thus Concerned Alternative Self-Image Much Your Foundations Utterly Image Jesus

Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would say a salutary way - and Reagan was most important in shifting the grand dynamic thrust of the American historical process by ending that. Rick Perlstein

Watergate Ending Important Shifting Think Way Say Would Thrust Leaders Mere Mortals Most Got Reagan Historical Began Itself Very Salutary America American Different Dynamic Process Grand Us Different Way

The truth is that we're not remaking Sam Peckinpah's 'Straw Dogs,' we're making 'Straw Dogs.' We're taking this story, and we're putting our own spin on it. The mere fact that I have James Marsden in it is an indication that it's a very different film than the one that had Dustin Hoffman in it. Rod Lurie

I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry. Ryoji Noyori

Work Daily Me First Chemistry National Young Nothing Research Too Some Students Had Mere Major Instructor Inexperienced Being Full Prepared Professor Enjoying Appointed Associate University

Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces. Samuel E. Morison

War History Beard Reflection Military Side Evolution Insignificant Economic Detested Economic Forces Throughout Writings Mere Forces Always Were His Left Show Hence Slanted Right

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler. Samuel Morse

Character Holding Nothing Ruler Moral Moral Character Per Parent Having More Mere Employer Condition Than Any Being Therefore Slaves

You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best. Serj Tankian

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I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news. Simon Hoggart

Work Day News Me Changes Worldwide Took Once Paper Intrigued Some Paris Magnificent Cabinet Mere Since Implied Been Led Huge Disdain Front Front Page Story Turkey Noted Page Ever

The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation that comes with the experience of disability, particularly those whose impairments prohibit them from communicating verbally, is insensitive at best. Stella Young

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question. Stephen Harper

Religion Country National Status Attained Mere Supposed Policy Accept Without Dogma Question After Which Enforced

Simply because I did not fit in their mold of what an independent working woman should be, the media and political elite have sought to relegate my sense of civic responsibility to mere sideshow antics. Stormy Daniels

Woman Political Responsibility Sense Independent Civic Simply Mere Sought Because Fit Did Should Working Mold Media Elite

When I learned that near Roussillon there were ochre quarries and mines from which was extracted the ore which produced pigments in all the warm hues of the color wheel, I had a substantial artistic link to this region beyond mere love. Susan Vreeland

I do not give money for just mere hopes. Terence

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