Merely Quotes

3319 quotes by 1909 authors

I no longer cared about survival...I merely loved. — Loren Eiseley
A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order. — Anatole France
My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership. — James Dobson
Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to… — Woodrow Wilson
"In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether "we, the people" is a spiritual idea embedded… — Bill Moyers
Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to… — Frederick William Robertson
A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely… — Lewis H. Lapham
The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . . But… — Unknown Author
The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism. — George E. P. Box
Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have… — Francis Schaeffer
There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of… — Justus von Liebig
When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a… — John Updike
Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or because you yourselves… — Gautama Buddha
Men point to the sad incidents of human life on earth, and they ask "Where is the love of God?" God points to that Cross… — Robert Anderson
What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right. — Socrates
Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I, joyfully… — Gautama Buddha
Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru
Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. — Gautama Buddha

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