#merely

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#animal #animal life #appetite #eats #healthy

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

#anything #change #control #cult thing #decide

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#enjoy #exercising #get #like #lose

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them. ↗

— John Webster

#merely #please #stars #struck #them

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived. ↗

— Rebecca West

#life #lived #memory #mere #merely

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#hand #image #mental #mental image #merely

Age merely shows what children we remain. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#children #merely #remain #shows

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

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments. ↗

— William Hague

#believe #change #climate #climate change #commitments

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#fills #knowledge #large #merely #small