Surely Quotes

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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's,… — Charles Babbage
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. — Francis Bacon
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. — James A. Baldwin
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. — John Adams
I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football. — Victoria Beckham
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion.… — Ezra Taft Benson
All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die… — Annie Besant
If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced… — Annie Besant
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act… — Augustine Birrell
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering. — Harold Bloom
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the… — Omar N. Bradley
I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you. — Emily Bronte
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or… — Joyce Brothers
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable. — Julie Burchill
I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are… — Julie Burchill
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football. — Albert Camus
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life? — Paul Cezanne
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price. — Agatha Christie
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. — Emile M. Cioran

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