#mere

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. ↗

— Duke of Wellington

#composed #earth #mere #our

Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#become #believe #christians #content #die

My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#am #anything #develop #discipline #distinguishes

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#attitude #change #changing #discovery #future

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. ↗

— John Wooden

#character #concerned #merely #more #others

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#america #been #detected #discovered #had

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#agree #agreed #character #control #evidence

You think I'm deranged! How refreshing. Everyone here takes me so seriously, it's a wonderful change to be thought mentally deficient. ↗

— Katie MacAlister

#insanity #meredith #slow #vampires #change

And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind. ↗

— Francis Wright

#did #fill #good #mere #mind

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

— Roy H. Williams

#ideas #mere #real #represent #shadows