Merely Quotes

3319 Merely quotes by 1909 unique authors

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he 'lives' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise… — G I Gurdjieff
In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great hardship and often with the loss of… — Ray Comfort
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order,… — Charles Horton Cooley
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy. — Mason Cooley
Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it. — Mason Cooley
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. — Calvin Coolidge
Public behavior is merely private character writ large. — Stephen Covey
Cats and their owners are on a private, exclusive loop of affection. Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and a hyper-engagement with… — Sloane Crosley
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. — E E Cummings
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. — Salvador Dali
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. — Ram Dass
It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any… — Richard Dawkins
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to… — William A. Dembski
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. — Democritus
Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer,… — Alan Dershowitz
For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because… — Alan Dershowitz
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies… — Benjamin Disraeli
I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products. — Marcel Duchamp
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. — Henry Van Dyke
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide… — Amelia Earhart
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. — Albert Einstein
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. — Albert Einstein
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. — Duke Ellington
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. — Nora Ephron
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men. — Epicurus

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