#mere

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#every #every day #fills #gentle #happy

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#anything #bidding #doctor #even #good

Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal. ↗

— Nelson Eddy

#door #even #kind #make #merely

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural. ↗

— Charles Edison

#miracle #natural #normal #physics #places

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#albeit #illusion #merely #persistent #reality

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#backbone #individual #man #men #mere

What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#different world #get #know #listen #merely

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. ↗

— George Eliot

#exclusion #get #great #great deal #into

When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#answer #anyway #asks #formality #get

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. ↗

— Edward Bond

#consumerism #convenience #democracy #democratic #domestic