Merely Quotes
3319 quotes by 1909 authors
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Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.
— Sam Harris
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If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties', then…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of…
— Salman Rushdie
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Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but giving up enthusiasm…
— James E. Faust
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Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception,…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression…
— Allen Ginsberg
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His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between…
— Hermann Hesse
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I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for…
— Patrick O'Brian
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It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is told in so…
— Gregory Maguire
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She was standing in the airport of Copenhagen, staring at a doorway, trying to figure out if it was (a) a bathroom and (b) what…
— Maureen Johnson
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking…
— Novalis
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Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination,…
— Milan Kundera
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Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
— Blaise Pascal
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Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not…
— James A. Baldwin
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When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness.…
— William P. Young
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
— Oscar Wilde
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So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread…
— Robin McKinley
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She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to…
— Hermann Hesse
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