Merely Quotes

My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.