#merely

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#done #five #god #hear #made

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer. ↗

— Louis Mumford

#consumer #merely #negative #producer #pure

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#better #candidates #does #done #elect

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#because #been #expressed #idea #merely

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #conquest #imitation #merely #metaphysical

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. ↗

— James Oliver

#blessed #men #merely #most #talk

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

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

#indulge #merely #sea #standing #staring

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#clauses #coherent #context #discourse #each