#mere

A melody is not merely something you can hum. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#melody #merely #something #you

I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#blacks #bursting #charm #colored #colors

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction. ↗

— Jean Dubuffet

#completely #eventual #expect #extinction #goodbye

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#failure #me #mere #symbolized #terrified

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#enemy #fallen #may #merely #reconciled

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#heaven #heir #holiness #holy #made

It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape. ↗

— Mark Strand

#form #hardly #merely #out #poem

Women aren't as mere as they used to be. ↗

— Walt Kelly

#used #women

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#achievement #amply #enable #enrich #errand

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. ↗

— Nido Qubein

#circumstances #determine #go #merely #present