Quotes of: Merely Keyword

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

John Webster

Humanity one chooses. Men who choose inhumanity are merely upright beasts.

John C Wright

When will we learn we are Human first, and that all other names are merely changes of clothing?

Katharine Eliska Kimbriel

No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.

Lindsay Duncan

An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith.

Lloyd C. Douglas

We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Robert Anton Wilson

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

Roy H. Williams

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

Ernst Mayr

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

William James

From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.

Ivan Pavlov

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Jonathan Sacks

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Theodore Roosevelt

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

Les Brown

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.

Paul Shaffer

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

Colin Wilson

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

Lydia M. Child

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

Sam Brownback

What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.

Thomas Frank

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

John L. Lewis

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

Stephen Bayley