Merely Quotes

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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative… — Rowan Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands… — Ibrahim Babangida
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use. — Gamaliel Bailey
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together… — Lucille Ball
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. — Douglas Adams
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an… — Douglas Adams
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms… — Henry Adams
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. — Max Beerbohm
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had… — Cyrano de Bergerac
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to… — Mortimer Adler
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an… — Kathryn Bigelow
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek… — Steven Biko
How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick… — Nellie Bly
What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those… — William J. H. Boetcker
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. — Robert Bork
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

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