Merely Quotes

3319 Merely quotes by 1909 unique authors

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it… — Megan Chance
It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality… — Michael Foley
Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive than merely being… — Michael Foley
Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil… — Simon Kuper
How do we professionally manage content? We don’t. We shouldn’t manage content in the same way that we shouldn’t manage technology. Content and technology are… — Gerry McGovern
In flight...entire days can be wound back or skipped over...as we exist merely in a world of vapor. Adventures are both beginning and coming to… — Josh Gates
You will be surprised to learn how some very knowing people have misunderstood Plotto. On glancing at it, some of the intelligentia have jumped at… — William Wallace Cook
Investing solely for 'income,' investing merely 'to keep capital employed,' and investing simply 'to hedge against inflation' are all entirely out of the question. — Gerald M. Loeb
Living by synchronicity isn't merely about getting messages. It is about growing the poetic consciousness that allows us to taste and touch what rhymes and… — Robert Moss
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. — Ronald Reagan
Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done… — John George Nicolay
Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to… — Jim Bishop
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to… — Alexis Carrel
All the world is a stage and we are merely players. — William Shakespeare
Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort. — Morgan Freeman
Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a… — Napoleon Hill
For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death. — Haddon W. Robinson
The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it… — Giacomo Puccini
I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about… — Michael Faraday
When you are fully present, you are truly living; the rest of the time, you are merely existing — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a… — C.S. Lewis
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive — Maya Angelou
All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire… — Lin Yutang
We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act… — Dallas Willard
Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never… — Clay Shirky

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