Merely Quotes

3319 Merely quotes by 1909 unique authors

Fat is merely stored energy. It is a physical state, nothing more and nothing less. It implies zero about your value as a person in… — Jillian Michaels
I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my… — Lee Friedlander
Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's… — J. G. Ballard
Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences… — Benjamin Franklin
I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer does… — Berenice Abbott
In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data… — Isaac Asimov
Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through it you can… — Isaac Asimov
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt,… — Ezra Pound
That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show. — Ada Lovelace
Now go back and meet all those people who you think know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely… — Paulo Coelho
Many people in this world are merely playing a role, unaware that there is an Invisible Hand guiding them. — Paulo Coelho
The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off. — Thomas Carlyle
Without money honor is merely a disease. — Jean Racine
Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Leaders receive and give assignments. This is an important part of the necessary principle of delegating. No one appreciates a willing volunteer more than I,… — James E. Faust
When I saw photographs of children murdered by the Fascist, I felt furious pity. When the supporters of Franco talked of Red atrocities, I merely… — Stephen Spender
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination. — Ramana Maharshi
We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction.… — Woodrow Wilson
Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to… — Albert Camus
Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it. — Gregory Maguire
Our music, whose eternal being is forever bound up in its temporal sounds, is not merely an art, enriching beyond measure our cultural life, but… — Bruno Walter
The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making — Wendell Berry
If you don’t try to stop whatever is going on in your mind, but merely observe it, eventually you’ll begin to feel a tremendous sense… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals. — Larry Craig
Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars. — Benjamin Disraeli

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