Merely Quotes

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some… — Maya Angelou
We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to… — James A. Baldwin
People do not change, they are merely revealed. — Anne Enright
Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is… — Thomas Merton
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid — Heinrich Heine
And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of… — Terry Pratchett
Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. — Richard Brautigan
I don't mean to say that I'm about to state my credo here on this page, but merely to affirm, sincerely for the first time… — Hunter S. Thompson
The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued." (From a speech read on video on… — Aung San Suu Kyi
The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that… — Carter G. Woodson
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. — Edgar Guest
Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines… — Laurie R. King
The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely… — William Faulkner
Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a… — Mark Steyn
I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat. -Lord Vetinari — Terry Pratchett
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us:… — D. H. Lawrence
Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in… — Alan Moore
I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with… — Sylvia Plath

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