#mere

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

#already #beat #boast #cannot #come

Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#barry #because #flamboyant #gets #interviews

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

#get #go #him #his #idea

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#asking #believe #creative #divine #essence

Age merely shows what children we remain. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#children #merely #remain #shows

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#adjustment #after #case #close #couple

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#being #confronted #desires #emancipation #external

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#aspire #hero #merely #rather #than

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#acquire #begin #country #cultural #earth

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder. ↗

— Paul J. Meyer

#merely #mistakes #steps #up