#mere

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#merely #prayer #simplest #turned #wish

Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over. ↗

— Eric Brown

#be nice #could #course #creative #i

For tis not in mere death that men die most. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#death #die #mere #most #tis

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. ↗

— James Buchan

#alliance #beings #climate #convenience #diplomacy

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#debate #discussion #dissent #freedom #hammered

Words, without power, is mere philosophy. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#philosophy #power #without #words

The feeble soul merely whines and complains. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#feeble #merely #soul

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#may #merely #more #perfectly #property

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#like #merely #out #pocket #private

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later. ↗

— John Carmack

#because #clever #competent #extremely #graphics