We Merely Quotes
36 quotes by 34 authors
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I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together…
— Lucille Ball
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We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.
— Johannes Brahms
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Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty,…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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One of the great underlying principles governing our life is service. Most of us have to work, but do we serve? Do we work in…
— Henry Thomas Hamblin
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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
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Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation,…
— Fred Edwords
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We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself,…
— Alexander Herzen
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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
— Georges Bernanos
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Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?
— Stephen Covey
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We didn't come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some lads who have…
— Glenn Miller
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With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
— Theodore Gericault
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We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, insubstantial,…
— Medard Boss
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The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those…
— Joseph Sobran
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We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are…
— Dale Carnegie
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Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we…
— Bo Lozoff
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When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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The parable of the talents is a good analogy of what happens when we give. When we merely try to hold on to what is…
— John Templeton
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It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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