Merely Quotes

3319 quotes by 1909 authors

I started shooting when I was much too far away. That was merely a trick of mine. I did not mean so much as to… — Manfred von Richthofen
I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious. — George Carlin
To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction… — Neal A. Maxwell
Leaders, your God-given job is not merely to preside over something, not to pontificate to your underlings how smart you are, not merely to preserve… — Bill Hybels
The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world… — Ford Madox Ford
Do I have a message? Yes, I do. Here's my message: as scary as the world is - and it is - it is merely… — Bill Hicks
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths… — Margaret Thatcher
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your… — Stephen King
Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building blocks, but rather… — Fritjof Capra
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only… — Erwin Schrodinger
Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. — Enrico Fermi
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are… — Alan K. Simpson
My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well. — Tom Robbins
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables. — Catharine MacKinnon
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that… — Edward R. Murrow
I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak of him as… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others. — Elizabeth Gaskell
The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract… — Pat Barker
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in… — James F. Cooper

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