Merely Quotes

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If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to… — Erich Fromm
You got off on the wrong foot. I merely watched you shove it into your mouth. — Sabrina Jeffries
The man is a humbug â€” a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the… — C.S. Lewis
Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced… — Brandon Sanderson
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference! — Emile M. Cioran
When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in… — Ingmar Bergman
understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings, — Haruki Murakami
My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and… — Anais Nin
Ronan merely invested a look with as much contempt as he could muster. A lady reached over the top of Noah to pat Matthew's head… — Maggie Stiefvater
The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war. — Elizabeth Gilbert
So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to… — Saint Augustine
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith… — Richard DeVos
I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my… — Zona Gale
Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it… — Paulo Coelho
In the spirit of faith let us begin each day, and we shall be sure to " redeem the time " which it brings to… — James Freeman Clarke
To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. — John Hall Gladstone
If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing. — Phillips Brooks
A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. — Og Mandino
Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a… — Aristotle
Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists who create works… — Max Perutz

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