Merely Quotes

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The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational… — Douglas Adams
Time does not pass, it merely changes. — Paulo Coelho
[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks… — Frantz Fanon
You are omniscient as ever, Dumbledore." "Oh, no, merely friendly with the local barmen. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the… — David Mitchell
The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its… — Hannah Arendt
Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable. — Henry David Thoreau
Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white… — Ford Madox Ford
There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas. — Adam Young
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the… — Harlan Ellison
Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived. — Mark Helprin
My dear October, we are bound by an enchanted rose made from the hair of a Duchess, and my blood is covering your hand. You… — Mira Grant
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It's my uniform. Everyone in my company wears it." "It's hideous." Rose felt her hackles rise. The neon green uniform was hideous, but she didn't… — Ilona Andrews
A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused. — Melina Marchetta
And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely… — Jess Walter
Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like… — David Levithan
The gospel is like a caged lion,' said the great baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'It does not need to be defended, it simply needs to… — Nancy Pearcey
Peace requires something far more difficult than revenge or merely turning the other cheek; it requires empathizing with the fears and unmet needs that provide… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here.… — George Orwell
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart… — Edgar Allan Poe
Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve?… — Julian Barnes
A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can… — John Edward Williams

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