Merely Quotes

3319 Merely quotes by 1909 unique authors

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. — Xunzi
The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite… — Nelson Rockefeller
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose… — Eugenio Montale
A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected. — Robin Skelton
But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and… — Henry L. Stimson
You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process. — Stephen Bayley
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the… — Leslie Fiedler
There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it… — David Lehman
Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio… — Susie Orbach
I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family. — Guy Kawasaki
To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact.… — Mary Webb
A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed. — Talcott Parsons
Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately… — Louis Begley
I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful… — Alfred Bester
Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step… — Jack Antonoff
We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put… — Francis Crick
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre. — Steven Chu
In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural. — Charles Edison
Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family,… — Frank Gaffney
There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that… — Sandra Fluke
The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself. — Larry Wall
We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone… — Joseph Wood Krutch
We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable. — Rutherford B. Hayes
What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it. — Charles Babbage

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