I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
Added pressure and responsibility should not change one's leadership style, it should merely expose that which already exists.
An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.
Employees go to school for 12 – 18 years merely to impress prospect employers in a 12 – 18 minutes interview.
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.
For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
And that's my comfort--that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?
The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
President Obama is perhaps the most ideologically-motivated president in American history. But according to the ultimate authority, Barack Obama, he's a mere pragmatist.
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
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.
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.
