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Sanity is merely an insane aspiration. — D.B. Woodling

Everything you see is merely a symbol for things you do not see. — Seth Adam Smith

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour. — Theodore Gericault

Being cautious ain't merely look after myself,
but also keep me away from others' carelessness. — Toba Beta

Conversion is not merely a ticket out of hell. It is the beginning of a whole new life, not just an end to the old one. — Aimee Byrd

No more can the reader hope to learn virtue merely by reading this book - unless, of course, it is so boring as to demand perseverance! — Dalai Lama XIV

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits. — Howard Zinn

Europe is merely powerful; India is beautiful. — Savitri Devi

Do we throw off the false 'cloak' at a party, or do we merely put on an untruthful yellow dress? — Jeremy Hawthorn

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution. — Aldo Leopold

Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country. — Paul Monroe

A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart. — Erica Jong

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests — Karl Lagerfeld

I'm not hysterical." "Of course you are. All women are. Their moments of calm are merely recuperative periods between outbursts. I — Rex Stout

Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do. — Lisa Kleypas

I have no desire ... to preach a high-minded and merely edifying version of love — Allan Bloom

What if the images of people sprouting wings are inaccurate, merely an attempt by the human mind to understand what it wasn't meant to comprehend? — M.M. Lake

Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right. — Frank Rich

Is he blind, or merely stupid?"

"He is honorable. Sometimes it amounts to the same thing. — George R R Martin

My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness — Narendra Modi

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned. — Oscar Wilde

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation. — Peter Wilson

A PhD does not automatically denote wisdom. Merely perseverance. — J. Michael Adams

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason. — Mikhail Lermontov

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it. — Mason Cooley

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. — Enrico Fermi

Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy. — George Santayana

Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ. — Edmund Clowney

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. — E. E. Cummings

There is a vast difference between merely knowing about Christ and actually knowing Him-the difference between heaven and hell. — Steven J. Lawson

My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well. — Tom Robbins

Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks. — Alfred North Whitehead

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. — Baltasar Gracian

All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience outside the gilded cage — Neil Peart

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good. — George MacDonald

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I, as a human, do not become the power or love or wisdom of God; I merely contain Him who is all these, and everything. — Norman Grubb

Luck is merely a product of the happily delusional mind. — Lois Greiman

Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We do not merely absorb experience; we filter and select it. — Jerome L. Singer

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences. — Anne McCaffrey

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation. — Lee Ellis

Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare. — Mark Twain

A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life. — Theodore W. Parker

Life isn't about merely surviving. It's about living. — D. Nichole King

Life is not to live merely, but to live well. — Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women ... merely adored. — Oscar Wilde

Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure. — Philip Yancey

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. — Robert A. Heinlein

It is the tragedy of other people that they are merely showcases for the very perishable collections of one's own mind. — Marcel Proust

God's Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It's not only descriptive; it's effective too, God speaking is God acting. — Michael Horton

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy. — Emile M. Cioran

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand. — Benjamin Disraeli

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. — Christopher Lasch

I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity. — Narendra Modi

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership. — James Dobson

So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact. — Erving Goffman

Accept the challenges of life and you'll continue to find that winning is the spirit of living ... it's merely a state of mind. — Mychal Wynn

the brave are merely the stupid who live through their poor decisions. — Brian Fuller

We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force. Nature has a master agenda we can only dimly know. — Camille Paglia

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre. — Vikas Swarup

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept. — Jack London

If he could get the idea of paper money past them then he was home and, if not dry, then at least merely Moist. — Terry Pratchett

The purpose of our activities on earth must go beyond bread and butter or merely surviving. — Sunday Adelaja

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect? — Thomas Sowell

Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. — G.K. Chesterton

The Bible informs, reforms and transforms. Other books merely informs — Ikechukwu Joseph

Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him — Jeremy Aldana

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it. — Johannes Brahms

...living is merely the chaos of existence... — Yukio Mishima

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth. — Miriam Makeba

Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words.
A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions! — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side. — Gautama Buddha

Life is a choice. Choose to live and not merely survive. — Debasish Mridha

- ... .when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say "I won't play any longer", and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting. — Epictetus

Both bad driving and bad voting are dangerous not merely to the individual who practices them, but to innocent bystanders. — Bryan Caplan

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water. — Rabindranath Tagore

Alessandro learned yet again that the joy of escape is better than the joy of merely being free. — Mark Helprin

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous. — Dorothy Parker

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics ... Religion is merely a matter between man and God. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing. — Laurie R. King

One cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance. — Paulo Coelho

To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human. — J. Oswald Sanders

Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions. — E.B. White

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst. — Marie Corelli

Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account. — Thomas Carlyle

For some death is an art, for others it is merely an inevitability. — Sadie S. Forsythe

It is not enough merely to win; others must lose. — Gore Vidal

There's a difference between a miracle, and something impossible. A miracle is not impossible - just merely unlikely. — Nick Nwaogu

I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination. — Amitav Ghosh

Living is not merely a matter of staying alive, is it? It is what you do with your life and the fact of your survival that counts. — Mary Balogh

A man with a rifle is a citizen; a man without one is merely a subject. — Mark Horton