#mere

When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#answer #anyway #asks #formality #get

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. ↗

— Edward Bond

#consumerism #convenience #democracy #democratic #domestic

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#continually #controversial #difficulty #distinguishing #fascinated

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men. ↗

— Epicurus

#abstract #between #compact #justice #merely

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. ↗

— George Boole

#beyond #commendation #does #faculties #high

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness. ↗

— George Borrow

#been #dreary #escape #idleness #itself

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#experience #get #got #hammered #hell

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#inspiration #mere #reed #shaken #wind

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#cling #freely #handle #make #melody

I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game. ↗

— Alton Brown

#actually #burger #cheeseburgers #connoisseur #content