Merely Quotes

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By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route… — Arthur Miller
The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a… — Aldous Huxley
I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the… — William S. Burroughs
Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest — William Shakespeare
The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are… — Giambattista Bodoni
Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies. — Howard Hughes
Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I… — Winston Churchill
You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely… — Samuel Alexander
We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words. — George A. Sheehan
Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom. — Unknown Author
The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. — Alfred North Whitehead
Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium. Those… — Peter Abelard
For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role. — Margaret J. Wheatley
We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be… — Edward Bernays
Peace is not merely the absence of warfare, any more than true health is simply the absence of disease. Nor is peace simply a quiet… — Anodea Judith
Creativity is not merely about cute pictures drawn by kindergartners. It is about the ability to create new enterprises, organizations, and institutions that fundamentally change… — Michael Strong
We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While there… — Thomas Berry
Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's… — Henry David Thoreau
I am ashes where I once was fire, And the bard in my bosom is dead; What I loved I now merely admire, And my… — William Shakespeare
It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form… — Baruch Spinoza
True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things… — Baruch Spinoza
Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one church, one currency,… — David Starkey

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