Merely Quotes

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I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more… — Charlotte Bronte
We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping… — Terry Goodkind
The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing… — Aldous Huxley
It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear… — Sam Harris
We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race — Matt Ridley
And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating… — Frank Herbert
There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. — Steven Wright
Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely… — Daniel Handler
Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person. — Mark Twain
The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself. — Neal A. Maxwell
It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the… — Edgar Allan Poe
There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions… — Margaret Atwood
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored. — Oscar Wilde
Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with-… — Ayn Rand
Life (as you call it) is an opportunity for you to know experientially what you already know conceptually. You need learn nothing to do this.… — Neale Donald Walsch
I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man.… — Raymond Chandler
But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up… — Vikram Seth
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim… — Emma Goldman
What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly. — Nora Roberts
Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one… — Margaret Thatcher
Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute. — Flannery O'Connor
So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not… — William H. Gass

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