#merely

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

#apples #arrogance #been #beings #benefit

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#conferred #habit #liberty #merely #privilege

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. ↗

— Steven Biko

#being #black #blackness #committed #describing

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#been #care #else #everyone #going

Europe is merely powerful; India is beautiful. ↗

— Savitri Devi

#europe #india #merely #powerful

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. ↗

— Paul Valery

#artist #finishes #his #merely #never

The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#challenge #culture #market #merely #place

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership. ↗

— James Dobson

#husbands #leadership #merely #observation #their

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