Merely Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless. — Blaise Pascal
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
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
I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing. — Oscar Wilde
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
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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