Merely Quotes

3319 quotes by 1909 authors

I shall never again admire a merely brave man. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Death's power is limited -- It cannot eradicate memories Or slay love It cannot destroy even a threadbare faith Or permanently hobble the smallest hope… — Donna VanLiere
I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms. — Clarice Lispector
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action.… — Joseph Campbell
If I'm going to merely ramble, maybe I should just snuggle under the warm covers, think of Miu, and play with myself. — Haruki Murakami
Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the… — Sam Harris
We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the… — Julio Cortazar
[Flaubert] didnâ€™t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of… — Julian Barnes
When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret.… — Julian Barnes
Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to… — James E. Talmage
Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a… — Jeanette Winterson
Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is… — Oscar Wilde
He broke my heart. You merely broke my life. — Vladimir Nabokov
Youâ€™ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only… — Mark Helprin
truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what… — Herman Melville
One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel. — Isak Dinesen
We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death… — John Updike
That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then… — Barack Obama
We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders. — Noam Chomsky
Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being.… — Cecelia Ahern

Who Wrote These Merely Quotes

1,909 authors contributed a total of 3,319 Merely Quotes, led by these top contributors: