Quotes of: Merely Keyword

... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious...

Francis Bacon

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

Francis Parker Yockey

Distinction is the outcome of living, while extinction is the outcome of merely existing without living

Constance Chuks Friday

It's not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.

Charles R. Swindoll

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

James Agee

True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.

Jane Addams

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.

John Griffin Carlisle

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

Edward Dmytryk

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

Bobby Jones

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

John Updike

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Douglas Adams

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

John White Geary

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

Henry James Sumner Maine

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Arthur Symons

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Oscar Wilde

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J. H. Boetcker

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

Abraham Cahan

We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.

David Blunkett

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

Wallace Stevens