Surely Quotes
1760 Surely quotes by 1196 unique authors
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What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers, the Ens Entium!…
— August Weismann
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Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent,…
— Harry Callahan
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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely…
— Raymond Chandler
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People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness…
— Douglas Adams
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I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating…
— Alan Dershowitz
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Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could replace if it were legally…
— Lester Grinspoon
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In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all…
— William Barclay
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Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that should meditate upon…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
— Albert Einstein
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The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The terrible thing about TERRORISM is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others,…
— Terry Waite
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When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.
— Zig Ziglar
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A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God…
— Unknown Author
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Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to…
— Roger Casement
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.
— Audre Lorde
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He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will…
— Sun Tzu
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
— Ernest Dimnet
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The rest of the world loves soccer. Surely we must be missing something. Uh, isn't that what the Russians told us about communism? There's a…
— Unknown Author
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If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by…
— Unknown Author
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War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
— Smedley Butler
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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure…
— Louise Bogan
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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
— Quentin Crisp
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Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature…
— Albert Schweitzer
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