Surely Quotes
1760 Surely quotes by 1196 unique authors
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It is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and…
— Barack Obama
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The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as…
— Richard Lewontin
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Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
— Stefan Zweig
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For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it…
— John Calvin
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Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the few, and long-term…
— Milton Friedman
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It is taken for granted that workers should receive their pay partly in kind, in the form of medical care provided by the employer. How…
— Milton Friedman
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In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the:Â process:Â…
— Thomas Sowell
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On Christ, and what he has done, my soul hangs for time and eternity. And if your soul also hangs there, it will be saved…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Weak faith will as surely land the Christian in heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least dram of true grace should perish
— William Gurnall
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Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.
— J C Ryle
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Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do,…
— J C Ryle
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We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with us. We must…
— J C Ryle
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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
— Robert Bly
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I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.
— Diego Maradona
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Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from…
— Mark Steyn
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Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance…
— Coco Rocha
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So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky…
— H.G. Wells
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Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of…
— Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.
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Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter…
— Margaret Drabble
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.…
— Anthony Trollope
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Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps.
— Andrea Dworkin
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For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been a…
— Carolyn Porco
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We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely…
— Laurence Binyon
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He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic…
— Grover Cleveland
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