We are the result of our mere actions. What we do, we become.
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.
Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
War is merely the continuation of politics by other means
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
