Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.
I keep traveling regularly, whether it's for my work life or merely a break from my work life.
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic.
The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
Being the writer is merely control freak level two. You've got to get to control freak level one.
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.
To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.
Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.
When I say I don't get involved in politics, I merely mean that I don't talk to reporters about it.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
The CVC and CAG are independent but merely recommendatory. The government often ignores their advice.
The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.
I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
The approach to 'Star Wars' was more complicated than usual merely by the nature of its expansiveness.
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.
The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.
For women, style codes are not merely about being smart or presentable, they are a platform for judgment.
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.