#merely

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. ↗

— May Sarton

#being #decent #hero #human #human being

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#comes #late #merely #never #often

The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#apparatus #believed #cared #ceremonies #connected

We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#earned #fear #instead #merely #nations

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#consider #constitution #evolving #flexible #how

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. ↗

— Frederick The Great

#hat #lets #merely #rain

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#does #idea #intellect #intellectual #manner

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. ↗

— Billy Joel

#am #competent #extraordinary #i #i am

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#beings #between #communicator #compound #computer

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#energy #i #merely #pout #some