#merely

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#besides #combinations #decided #diffuse #fact

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#like #liking #merely #other #people

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#any #belongs #caesar #fault #finding

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams. ↗

— Rudolph Valentino

#canvas #dreams #i #i am #love

They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#because #brotherly #feel #human #me

I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#belief #celebrities #certain #clerical #cult

I'm merely trying to be something akin to a nice, kind, good actress. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#akin #good #i #kind #merely

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. ↗

— Albert Camus

#expend #merely #nobody #normal #people

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. ↗

— Joel A. Barker

#change #change the world #dream #just #merely

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#conversation #instead #lengthens #merely #mind