238 Mere Quotes for You to Enjoy

What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security. Terry Wogan

Good Woman Young Manners Good Manners Security Open Mere Likely She Call Affectation Door Regarded Young Woman Used Now

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. Theodore Bikel

Doubt Unity Willed No Doubt Something Mere Being Cannot Desired

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy. Thomas Arnold

Man Energy Ability One-Man Mere Between Another Difference

What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party. Thomas Frank

Health Debate Care Party More Mere Over Democratic Democratic Party Identity Policy Health Care Issue Than Crafting Stake Now

It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet. Tina Brown

Politics Me Experience Resume Internet Before Community Killer Entered Obama Seemed He Mere Always Proved Referring Campaign Ironic McCain Skill Electoral App Organizer Applied Kept

The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence. Tom Shales

Seen Programs Increasingly Frame Once Backdrop Television Has-Been Posted Ads Mere Like Content Within Always Fence Were Been Commercials Which Separately Billboards Displayed Violated Program Pulp

Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana. Vinoba Bhave

Life Karma Mere Does Mean

Though designed as a mere convenience, clothing sizes establish an unintended norm, an ideal from which deviations seem like flaws. There's nothing like a trip to the dressing room to convince a woman - fat, thin, or in between - that she's a freak. Virginia Postrel

Woman Nothing Though Freak Trip Dressing Dressing Room Seem Mere Ideal Between Like She Norm Convenience Establish Clothing Sizes In-Between Which Room Flaws Convince Unintended Thin Designed Fat

The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters. Playful language. Joy and sorrow, pathos and elation. Episodes that dare to be different - to tell stories in silence or in song. Big themes and terrible choices. Virginia Postrel

Art Great Silence Song Joy Language Big Great Art Complex Dare Tell Characters Evolving One Thing Be Different About Wrong Mere Sorrow Buffy Terrible Proves Existence Commercialism Pathos Different Stories Elation Hollywood Themes Produce Choices Episodes Thing Playful

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments. Virginia Postrel

Lie World Imagination Dramatic Unnatural Distorted Tells Something Never Mere True Tales Judgments Audience Deaths Effect Effects Histories Itself Happened Place Theater Requires Special Special Effects Even

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance. Vitruvius

Able Shadow Architect Adopt He Instead Mere Fails Also Practical Substance Wherefore Forms Reasons Grasping Assign Sufficient

The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence. Walter Kirn

Best Behavior Politicians Too Evidence Favor Sung Immune Struggled Mere Remind Idea Like Because Very Selves American Human Blues Human Behavior Either Them Themselves Theories Who Imagine

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon. Wilhelm Dilthey

World Perspective Only Remains Mere Always Representation External External World Phenomenon

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought. Wilhelm Dilthey

Thought Extract Diluted Locke Rather Constructed Mere Veins Knowing Real Subject Blood Kant Reason Activity Flows

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history. William Banting

History Become Matters Other Mere Bodily

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. William Godwin

Education Reading Thinking Pupil Object Rather Various Lead Mere True New Render Him His Than Trains Should Copy

No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form. William Godwin

No-One Mere Cultivate Repetition Fervent Form Display Zeal

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. William Kingdon Clifford

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest. William Kingdon Clifford

Myself Great Man Money Possession Steal Prevent He Badly Wrong Mere Feel Towards Make Him Doing Loss Person Any Done May Dishonest Transfer Cannot Help Using Harm

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. William Shakespeare

Heart Words Matter Mere

African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance. Wole Soyinka

Mere Makers Scraping African Film Film-Makers

Pakistan and Afghanistan are not mere neighbours, we are more than that, we are connected by Muslim bond of brotherhood. Ashraf Ghani

Neighbours Muslim Brotherhood More Mere Than Afghanistan Connected Pakistan Bond

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