Merely Quotes
3319 Merely quotes by 1909 unique authors
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Don't expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you'll get one for doing it exceptionally well.
— Lea Salonga
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God has called each one of us to embrace life, not merely to endure it.
— Perry Noble
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The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched.
— Chris Pavone
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After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.
— Henry Howarth Bashford
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He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely…
— Jose Saramago
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Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is also…
— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as…
— Immanuel Kant
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A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is perfectly evident...that to thank the Lord in all things is not merely a courtesy, it is a commandment as binding upon us as…
— Marion G. Romney
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Passion for equality blinds the utopian to the fact that society, as a whole, is based on inequality of men in two respects: the inventor,…
— Thomas Steven Molnar
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It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price…
— Ananda Coomaraswamy
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We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt…
— Thomas Merton
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No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.
— Peter Kreeft
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The Lord commands the wife to be submissive. Refusal to submit to the husband is therefore rebellion against God Himself. Submission to the husband is…
— Wayne Mack
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It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a…
— Murong Xuecun
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To learn a thing in life and through doing is much more developing, cultivating, and strengthening than to learn it merely through the verbal communication…
— Friedrich Frobel
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What you already know is merely a good departure point.
— Keorapetse Kgositsile
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In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must…
— T. B. Joshua
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Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you.
— Jean Berko Gleason
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When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human…
— George Washington Carver
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They [the disciples] were testifying to the resurrection, a question of fact, not merely of faith. They were convinced of an event. And their willingness…
— Dave Hunt
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The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith; without it, there would be no Christianity. It is the singular doctrine that elevates…
— Adrian Rogers
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A one year study by the Washington Post has documented 620 cases in which experimental drugs have been implicated in the deaths of cancer patients....And…
— Ted Gup
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