Merely Quotes

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Life takes us on different paths... It's not up to us to evaluate or judge them, merely respect and embrace them. (Lara Lington - to… — Sophie Kinsella
A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into? — Simone de Beauvoir
Scorpions are quite ruthless, you know. That is why Artemis bid one of them to kill her foe Orion. And as a reward she set… — Lisa Kleypas
The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even… — Tanith Lee
The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me." ... He does not say "He… — Martin Luther
The dead are merely the countrymen of my future. — Dean Koontz
For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. — Albert Camus
At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for… — Margaret Atwood
They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often… — Alice Hoffman
Fatherâ€™s silence is not merely the absence of sound. Itâ€™s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small… — Franny Billingsley
It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which… — Milan Kundera
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and… — David Mitchell
The Saab seethed off into the night. Arthur watched it go, as stunned as a man might be who, having believed himself to be totally… — Douglas Adams
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole. — Aristophanes
But we all must be true to our own nature. Acting as anyone other than yourself merely brings you pain and makes you appear ashamed… — Gena Showalter
Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found… — Robert Frost
She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any satisfactory way is… — Nick Hornby
We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given… — Elisabeth Elliot
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to… — Seth Godin
My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is… — Oscar Wilde

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