#merely

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#become #cannot #man #merely #wishing

The Public is merely a multiplied "me." ↗

— Mark Twain

#merely #multiplied #public

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#circumstances #general #greater #hurry #i

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

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait. ↗

— Les Brown

#bait #business #commerce #communications #day-to-day

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

Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#creatures #love #love is #merely #spirits

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. ↗

— Elsa Schiaparelli

#contributes #eating #gives #goodwill #great

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

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#force #freedom #heart #interference #intrusion