Quotes About Merely

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

My time is much too precious to be wasted on people who merely want to talk about being a high performance person and can't or won't take action!

It was okay but then I found myself in that position of being merely a screenwriter. And you are merely the screenwriter, and there's no way around it. You don't have the same clout as the director.

It's no wonder The Elites promulgate Darwinism. Convince people they are merely animals and you can treat them accordingly.

Leadership is meant merely to be lead-by-example.Anything given extra to support team result is just an icing on the top.

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Only here is suffering really suffering. Not in the way that those who suffer here are to be ennobled in some other world for their suffering, but that what passes for suffering in this world is, in another world, without any change and merely without its contrariety, bliss.

You attempt merely power you accomplish merely suffering

It is merely a trick of taking notice, sir. I assure you I am no better informed than another.

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity . . . any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about dong it right, or better.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

I did not acquire the franchise merely so people could experience 'Duke Nukem Forever.' That was, sort of, the toll to pay to give 'Duke Nukem' a chance at a future.

Those that merely talk and never think,That live in the wild anarchy of drink.

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.

Why, that requires not this preparation; ye need not have come thus far and dragged your captain to the shame of a defeat merely to prove yourselves cowards.

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

The more so, I say, because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.

Downfall? How ominous you make it sound. There is no downfall being plotted. Merely a question being asked. (Callie) Aye, and empires have been splintered apart over the mere utterance of a single word. (Sin)

I come not to bring negative peace, but I come to bring positive peace. I come not to bring this old peace which is merely the absence of tension; I come to bring a positive peace which is the presence of justice and the Kingdom of God. Peace is not merely the absence of something, but it's the presence of something.