Merely Quotes

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Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything that may help… — Yana Toboso
If wrestling can be considered an art form, then [Ric Flair] is using oils, and the many others merely water colors. — Ric Flair
Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We arenâ€™t merely objects of desire. — Sinead O'Connor
The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be… — John Astin
The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a beloved community. A… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth… — Bayard Rustin
To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression. — Marina Abramovic
I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here. — W.C. Fields
When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like a… — Chris Hardwick
Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no 'Nigerians' in the same sense as there are 'English,' 'Welsh,' or… — Obafemi Awolowo
The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray societyâ€™s weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or… — Ken Saro-Wiwa
Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the… — Helen Fielding
Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination. — Lin Yutang
Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday… — Jerry Seinfeld
Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account. — Thomas Carlyle
There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so. — Alfred Stieglitz
The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted… — Lee Friedlander
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing. — Edward Weston
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present… — Lionel Trilling
My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound. — Robert Coover

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