Top 1200 Mere Mortals Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will happen more and more. For mortals, as you said, will become more and more jealous. And mother and wife and child and friend will all be in league to keep a soul from being united with the Divine Nature.

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

We shall never want to serve God in our real and secret hearts if He looms in our subconscious mind as an arbitrary Dictator or a Spoil-sport, or as one who takes advantage of His position to make us poor mortals feel guilty and afraid. We have not only to be impressed by the "size" and unlimited power of God, we have to be moved to genuine admiration, respect, and affection, if we are ever to worship Him.

He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.

Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

The pure love of Christ can remove the scales of resentment and wrath from our eyes, allowing us to see others the way our Heavenly Father sees us: as flawed and imperfect mortals who have potential and worth far beyond our capacity to imagine. Because God loves us so much, we too must love and forgive each other.

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough to think that they always observe with rigorous and objective scrutiny, and therefore could never be so fooled while ordinary mortals know perfectly well that good performers can always find a way to trick people.

Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.

Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.

My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of a lifetime spent visualizing defeat and figuring out how to prevent it. Like most astronauts, I'm pretty sure that I can deal with what life throws at me because I've thought about what to do if things go wrong, as well as right. That's the power of negative thinking.

My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru Yogananda.

Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over.

If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock?

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.

People knowledge is much more important than mere product knowledge.

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

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.

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.

As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature.