Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
Amy Lowell
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Karl Marx
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.
John Ortberg
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Jean Paul
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
Ivan Pavlov
The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen.
Edward Ruscha
Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.
Bhagat Singh
African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.
Wole Soyinka
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
Arthur Symons
I do not give money for just mere hopes.
Terence