Quotes 241 till 260 of 260.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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White can always play differently, in which case he merely loses differently.
On his eponymous defense to the Kings Gambit. A bust to the Kings Gambit (1960) -
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
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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.
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Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.
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Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.
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You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
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You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film, you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.
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Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men
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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
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