We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.
Johannes Brahms
Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
Marlon Brando
I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.
Marcus Brigstocke
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks
She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.
bell hooks
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
Robert McNamara
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
Herman Melville
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
H. L. Mencken
You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally... →
Moses Mendelssohn