Merely Quotes

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It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see… — Janet Morris
God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a glass of fresh… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it. — Chogyam Trungpa
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each… — Marcel Proust
We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component… — Antonio Damasio
A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy… — Emile Durkheim
Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a… — Martin Filler
How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of… — Jackson Katz
War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the… — Bayard Rustin
What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that… — Andrea Bocelli
I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would… — Clare Balding
Inviting children as gospel learners to act and not merely be acted upon builds on reading and talking about the Book of Mormon and bearing… — David A. Bednar
In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you have… — Michael Shermer
I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian. — Saint Ignatius
Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims. — bell hooks
Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a… — Louis Sullivan
For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying… — John Ridley
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause… — Monica Johnson
I always thought the point of life was something richer than that. Something full of great tragedy or comedy, reversal of fortune, ecstasy, that kind… — Jonathan Raymond
To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost. — Chuck Palahniuk
Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally… — Henry Rollins
Modern warfare is by no means merely a matter of military operations. Economic affairs stand together with them in the first rank of the factors… — Chiang Kai-shek
Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or even comprehend language. They are like finely tuned… — Theodore Isaac Rubin
My political giving has merely followed my relationships. — David Jolly

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