#merely

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#evolutionary #finish #hope #house #merely

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#assigned #classified #communist #consider #heroism

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. ↗

— Xun Zi

#men #merely #petty #public-spirited #scholars

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#china #figures #government #holding #innocent

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders. ↗

— Florence E. Allen

#effect #hardly #individual #judge #merely

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#defeats #going #great #great man #his

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#action #big #great #great nation #merely

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#effort #freedom #freedom from #in the past #means

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#eyes #find #human #individuality #individuals

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

— May Sarton

#being #decent #hero #human #human being