I wouldn't describe that 'position' as 'parasitic.' I'd describe that experience as 'edifying.' I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.
We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process - who really need to do lots of internal work, so that I become merely a witness until they're ready to share.
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.
The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.
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.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.
What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.
I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.
Europe is merely powerful; India is beautiful.
The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises.
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.
