Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood

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

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
Marcel Duchamp

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
Theodor Adorno

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
Laurence J. Peter

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
Marlon Brando

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
Edward R. Murrow

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
E. M. Forster

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Duke Ellington

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.
Robert Anton Wilson

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
Hans Kung

We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +'s.
Francis Crick

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
Emil Zatopek

What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
Helen Rowland

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.
John L. Lewis