Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?
Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.
And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.
There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter; but this is the sort of thing (as the proverb indicates) we overlook: there are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them.
We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.
Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.
What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute.
Surely the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely trying to make its own living in a tough Darwinian world
Try claiming God's blessings instead of merely longing for them.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.
The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?
In calling society an ecological system we are not merely using an analogy; society is an example of the general concept of an " ecosystem " that is, an ecological system of which biological systems--forests, fields, swamps--are other examples.
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.
It has taken me a long time to realize where I most disagree with Marx. His assessment of capitalism is far too favorable. He took its instability, inhumanity and irrationality to be signs that it was a merely transitional form, which had delivered into humanity's hands the means to a much better way of life than any that have ever existed on earth. Marx could not bring himself to believe that our species is so benighted, irrational and slavish that it would put up with such a monstrous way of life.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.