#merely

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #merely




Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.


Herbert Croly


#conception #consequences #country #democracy #did

There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.


Sandra Fluke


#blood #blood pressure #care #covered #example

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


#always #bad #bad press #being #boring

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.


Michael Haneke


#back #been #century #demands #director

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.


Anthony Holden


#before #change #dramatic #dramatic change #enormously

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


#envy #i #me #merely #no respect

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


Harry Emerson Fosdick


#cause #christians #endure #even #merely

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.


Edward Thorndike


#animal #elements #feelings #instead #merely

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.


Kerry Thornley


#chaos #form #imagine #merely #order

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.


Amy Vanderbilt


#exhibit #feel #good #good manners #make