Merely Quotes

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Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's… — Jenna Blum
Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the… — Karen Marie Moning
what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world… — Alain de Botton
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not… — Toni Morrison
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests — Karl Lagerfeld
Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors. — Kurt Vonnegut
Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?"… — Joseph Heller
We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty… — C.S. Lewis
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor… — Steven Johnson
I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events… — Stefan Zweig
The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Just how many sisters do you have? (Valerius) Eight. (Tabitha) Eight? (Valerius) What? (Tabitha) I'm just pitying whatever poor males lived in that house with… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did… — Chief Seattle
Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal–it was business. — Steig Larsson
Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown.' Thank… — Seth Grahame-Smith
When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a… — P.G. Wodehouse
Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same. — P.G. Wodehouse
Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for… — John Piper
To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an… — C.S. Lewis
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage… — Lev Grossman
If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater, in which case… — Ted Dekker
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her.… — D. H. Lawrence
Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear. — Mother Teresa

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