Surely Quotes
1760 Surely quotes by 1196 unique authors
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Revolutionary war is an antitoxin that not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. Every just, revolutionary war is…
— Mao Zedong
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In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such…
— Timothy Keller
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...notice how he will come to manhood with his own particular soul bespeaking itself through the windows which are his eyes, and such lovely eyes…
— Jack Kerouac
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Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the…
— Robert Falcon Scott
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... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between the stars, where…
— William Beebe
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and…
— Joseph Heller
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This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and fresh eggs giving…
— Jim Harrison
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Surely the Lord loves, more than anything else, an unwavering determination to obey his counsel.
— Howard W. Hunter
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We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our…
— Barack Obama
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Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.
— Joseph Stalin
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We live in a society that will send us to prison if we make use of time-honored sacred plants to explore our own consciousness. Yet…
— Graham Hancock
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I call upon both Republicans and Democrats to work with us to have a national ID card that is free and accessible. President Lyndon Johnson…
— Andrew Young
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been…
— Jonathan Swift
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There are other places, surely, for other people, but for me there is one place, Ann Arbor, for there it was I discovered what lifes…
— William Shawn
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They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on…
— Thucydides
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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
— Mercedes Lackey
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It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the…
— Tony Judt
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In all of the history of mankind there has never been a time when we have had a greater opportunity to increase our knowledge of…
— L. Tom Perry
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You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything…
— Ramana Maharshi
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All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some…
— Ramakrishna
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The first step to be taken by one who wishes to follow Christ is, according to Our Lord’s own words, that of renouncing himself -…
— St. Vincent
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The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
— Dennis Potter
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The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.
— H. L. Mencken
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Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not the possessing but…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they who choose good.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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