Merely Quotes

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There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of… — George Orwell
Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look… — Donald Barthelme
Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt… — Milan Kundera
I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance… — Keri Hulme
Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest… — Aristotle
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness,… — Bertrand Russell
And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a… — Jane Austen
What is written is merely the dregs of experience. — Franz Kafka
We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore… — Thomas Jefferson
It is not enough merely to win; others must lose. — Gore Vidal
The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses â€“ it is concerned with… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant… — J.R.R. Tolkien
â€¦They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another.… — Richard Matheson
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood. — Charles Dickens
It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more… — Charlotte Bronte
We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping… — Terry Goodkind
The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing… — Aldous Huxley
It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear… — Sam Harris
We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to… — Jeffrey Eugenides

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