#merely

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money. ↗

— John Updike

#cease #children #earning #eating #keep

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen. ↗

— Charles W. Chesnutt

#impossibilities #learned #merely #things #which

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#conception #consequences #country #democracy #did

I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people. ↗

— Ed Harris

#conservative #country #current #current administration #extreme

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#am #among #anywhere #assertions #cases

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#assent #authority #canons #clergy #constitution

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#before #change #dramatic #dramatic change #enormously

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#envy #i #me #merely #no respect

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#cause #christians #endure #even #merely

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #elements #feelings #instead #merely