So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
Loss is merely a tool for evaluation, organization, determination and actualization towards being the best you that you can possibly be.
The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic.
I don't want to leave people thinking they've merely seen another actor using his same bag of tricks and fake charm.
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.
Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.
When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee.
How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?
It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live - not in the cultivation of a virtue, which merely brings about respectability, not understanding and freedom.
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.
As relationships progress, the time you spend smooching diminishes. Where kissing was once an enjoyable entree unto itself, it becomes a mere appetizer couples hasten through on the way to the main course.
Harry Block: Look, I was merely explaining to you why my choice of necessity is confined to your practice.
General Allenby: I thought I was a hard man, sir. Prince Feisal: You are merely a general. I must be a king.
But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
