Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.
One can never rack up his goals mere through hard-work, there is a thing in this world which is known as self-confidence.
As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.
And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.
One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.
An Odonian’s goal is positive, not negative. Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill fortune.
We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.
A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.
I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.
Travel wasn't fun if you didn't get to see or do what you wanted; it was merely a different type of work, in a different place.
...you merely look at me and I want to confess, but don't - I've buried my heart under the floor boards, but you always dig it up...
...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..
It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.
So? I know lots of beautiful women. Nova wanted to chase... I merely obliged her by running.
Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery.
A blanket could be used to smother a fire—but not the fire that burns in my heart for you. Or perhaps that’s merely heartburn, and you’re just as common as a brick.
She thought it was strange that the mere sensation of savouring the prospect of something could make her think for a while that is must be the prospect of home.
Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it.
They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.
