Merely Quotes

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Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown.' Thank… — Seth Grahame-Smith
When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a… — P.G. Wodehouse
Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same. — P.G. Wodehouse
Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for… — John Piper
To please Godâ€¦ to be a real ingredient in the divine happinessâ€¦ to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an… — C.S. Lewis
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him â€” the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage… — Lev Grossman
If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater, in which case… — Ted Dekker
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her.… — D. H. Lawrence
Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear. — Mother Teresa
Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid… — Isaac Asimov
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it. — Bertrand Russell
It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the… — Richard P. Feynman
Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it. — Aleister Crowley
Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a kind of orgasm… — Eric Weiner
When he comes, he makes a noise deep in his throat that is so raw and animal and sexual that I think if he merely… — Karen Marie Moning
Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side. — Karen Marie Moning

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