Surely Quotes

1760 Surely quotes by 1196 unique authors

The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But… — Alvar Aalto
Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican… — Ellen Tauscher
Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes. — Laurent Lamothe
Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because… — Jackie Chan
When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment. — Kazuo Ishiguro
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality… — Paul Davies
No planet is more earth-like than Earth itself, so if life really does pop up readily in earth-like conditions, then surely it should have arisen… — Paul Davies
Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life? — Michael O'Donoghue
Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Come to me. Are you lost? I can see another way from where I live. The heart can see a path that's out of sight… — Robert H. Schuller
Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of… — Epictetus
God sees the inner spirit stripped of flesh, skin, and all debris. For his own mind only touches the spirit that he has allowed to… — Marcus Aurelius
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths… — Thomas Huxley
The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one… — Dorothy L. Sayers
From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from… — Nicholson Baker
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that… — Zygmunt Bauman
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right. — Shirley Hazzard
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms. — John Millington Synge
A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful… — William Booth
Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and… — George Gilder
What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being… — John Boorman
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. — Fanny Burney
If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction. — Louis Begley
Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly… — Anthony Braxton

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