The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even on board the slave ship. Toleration of a wrong is not law.
The arrogance of the human mind is too fragile, as well as the patience of the human character. It is because of that, they fail to see the power of mere observation and systematic analysis.
When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren't showing you.
Patience is the gift of possibility. Time is merely an illusion. People lack patience, which is why time becomes their enemy.
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
Closing one’s eyes when praying doesn’t increase the odds of the prayer being answered. It merely decreases the odds of being distracted.
Life is merely one very long day that routinely gets dark to give people a sensible excuse to keep their eyes closed for 8 hours.
If we really exist merely to fulfill God’s plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience.
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.
88% of what we call good songs aren’t really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had.
Faith does not make things happen. It merely breeds perseverance; which helps one persist in making things happen.
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
It is the tragedy of other people that they are merely showcases for the very perishable collections of one's own mind.
God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals
Lollypop ...the passion contained merely kisses placed upon lips, neck and cheek these young lovers of the castle of which our fairytale speaks...
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
