Surely Quotes
1760 Surely quotes by 1196 unique authors
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Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry…
— Paul Krugman
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If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take…
— Thomas Merton
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Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does any religious conviction…
— David Blankenhorn
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Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.
— Chuck Hagel
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Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without…
— Martin Van Creveld
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Christians aren’t making a religious claim when they say Jesus rose from the grave. They’re making a historical one; they’re saying that this thing happened…
— Greg Gilbert
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No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.
— Jeanette Winterson
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Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy…
— Thomas Browne
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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood…
— Hans Hofmann
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The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most…
— Fannie Hurst
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Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future.
— Michelle Cruz
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Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
— Josiah Strong
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Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export.
— Barry Eichengreen
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The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.
— Michael Pollan
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The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against…
— Maureen Dowd
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Imagine how our lives might be if everyone had even a bit more of the Wisdom that comes from seeing clearly. Suppose people everywhere, simultaneously,…
— Sylvia Boorstein
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Humans need Jesus Christ as a necessity and not as a luxury. You may be pleased to have flowers, but you must have bread. .…
— Joseph Parker
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He took a moment to get over the shock, and to remind himself that this had surely been difficult for her and she was probably…
— Julianne MacLean
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A woman once told me that she did not feel the need to reach out to those around her because she prayed every day. Surely,…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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