Merely Quotes

3319 Merely quotes by 1909 unique authors

The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind,… — Criss Jami
The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely… — Criss Jami
If the words of God are uttered merely as verbal expressions, and their message is not rooted in the virtuous way of life of those… — Maximus the Confessor
If Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand something, it's not defeat. It's not even something he has to accept. It's merely a challenge he needs to engineer… — Sarah Lacy
I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process -… — Joe Mantello
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. — Ernst Mayr
Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly,… — Vaclav Havel
When your soul is pricked by compunction and gradually changed, it becomes a fountain flowing with rivers of tears and compunction. If any one of… — Symeon the New Theologian
Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men? — Swami Vivekananda
A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water… — Dan Simmons
No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and… — Parker J. Palmer
Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers... — Bob Hope
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s in science or… — Steven Chu
It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we… — Carl Jung
It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges. — Thomas Aquinas
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge… — Tobias Smollett
Probably our atomic weights merely represent a mean value around which the actual atomic weights of the atoms vary within certain narrow limits... when we… — William Crookes
The whole of a human being is merely a vertebra. — Lorenz Oken
Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and… — John Dewey
New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake… — Marshall McLuhan
Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture… — Marshall McLuhan
Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the… — Arthur C. Clarke
Some psychological and sociological conditioning occurs in every man's life and this affects the decisions he makes. But we must resist the modern concept that… — Francis Schaeffer
Together they [President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger] pursued ends that frequently had a tenuous link with reality, using means that were not merely disproportionate but… — William Shawcross
We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust… — Jonathan Sacks

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