Merely Quotes

3319 Merely quotes by 1909 unique authors

I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world,… — William Butler Yeats
I know it’s not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!" "My mother always said that… — Terry Pratchett
I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom. — Suzanne Collins
The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I...asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars,… — David Mitchell
These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent… — Douglas Adams
Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job. — Terry Pratchett
You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing. — Laurie R. King
Try it on." "It's probably a little snug. Marcie tends to buy down when it comes to sizing." He merely smiled. "It has a slit… — Becca Fitzpatrick
I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to… — W.N.P. Barbellion
Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication? — Julian Barnes
One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know… — Iain Banks
The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind -- a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a… — Woody Allen
I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture of… — E E Cummings
Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot. — Paulo Coelho
In order to become a success, a business doesn't just have to do well, it has to to better than its competitors. Being number one… — Mitt Romney
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. — E. M. Forster
It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize… — Albert Schweitzer
She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got… — Oscar Wilde
There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all,… — Oscar Wilde
Try it on." "It's probably a little snug," I said, suddenly feeling conspicuous. "Marcie tends to buy down when it comes to sizing." He merely… — Becca Fitzpatrick
You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women… — Neil Strauss
Summerset, don't you ever sleep?" "It's Lieutenant Dallas. She's--" Roarke dropped his briefcase, grabbed Summerset by the lapels. "Has she been hurt? Where is she?"… — Nora Roberts

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