Quotes of: Merely Keyword

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

David Viscott

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

David Mitchell

If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are substitutes for 'I like it' and 'I don't like it.' They are not objective realities.

Dennis Prager

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Henry Van Dyke

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.

Jeffrey Kluger

I've never really played everyday people. I've played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters.

Sandrine Bonnaire

The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

Walter Lang

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Honore de Balzac

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Helen Rowland

The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen.

Edward Ruscha

In a rather simple way. It merely required the use of that much–neglected commodity – common sense.

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Wisdom too often never comes, so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Felix Frankfurter

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

G.K. Chesterton

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

Claudius Galenus

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung

Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

Charlotte M. Mason

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

Chuck Palahniuk

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

Ivan Pavlov

We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us

J.G. Ballard