Merely Quotes

3319 Merely quotes by 1909 unique authors

I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night? A… — Michael Dirda
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest… — Steven Heighton
Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s masterwork but… — Jonathan Yardley
God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race -- to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish, and full of… — Mary Howitt
The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in… — Jonathan Dimbleby
To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is… — Elaine Scarry
If you race merely for the tributes from others, you will be at the mercy of their expectations. — Scott Tinley
A man is not merely a man but a man among men, in a world of men. Being good at being a man has more… — Jack Donovan
We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things… — Ralph Caplan
I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life… — Ayn Rand
Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes. — Frank Chodorov
It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction. — Ludwig von Mises
Originality is merely an illusion. — M.C. Escher
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and… — William Faulkner
The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived. — Thomas Merton
By not forgiving, by not letting wrongs go, we aren't getting back at anyone. We are merely punishing ourselves by barricading our own hearts. — Jim Cymbala
The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The… — Napoleon Hill
Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. — Albert Einstein
Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would… — Bertrand Russell
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to… — Aldous Huxley
Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip. — Albert Mohler
Some make man God's co-worker, to ratify election by His consent. Thus, according to them [Arminians], man's will is superior to God's plan. As if… — John Calvin
Merely watching a romantic comedy causes relationship satisfaction to plummet. Apparently, the bitter realization that maybe it could happen to us, but it obviously hasn't… — Jenna McCarthy
A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life. — Theodore Parker
This tree is indeed a Tree of Life, for without the higher and finer sentiments man does not life; he merely exists. If any branch… — Manly Hall

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