Merely Quotes

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Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes. — Sharon Shinn
Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create… — Neil Gaiman
The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both… — Evelyn Underhill
...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time. — Jonah Lehrer
This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the… — Wendell Berry
But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on… — Albert Camus
The heavy red roses smoldering in the foggy morning, blood-colored and uninhibited, made me greedy, and tempted me powerfully to steal one--I asked the prices… — Knut Hamsun
When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can… — Bell Hooks
our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them. — Jeffrey Eugenides
The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely… — Bertrand Russell
i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood… — John Gardner
Bending his head over hers, Leo murmured, "When I give you away at the altar, Bea, I want you to remember something. I'm not really… — Lisa Kleypas
I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it. — Douglas Coupland
He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal… — James Boswell
The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead,… — Joseph Campbell
Adieu, Lord Dain,â€ she answered without turning her head. â€œHave a pleasant evening with your cows.â€ Cows? She was merely trying to provoke him, Dain… — Loretta Chase
What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not knowâ€¦. But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is… — Katherine Mansfield
For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true — Robert Frost
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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