Surely Quotes

1760 Surely quotes by 1196 unique authors

Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was… — Rahm Emanuel
Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. — E. M. Forster
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable… — Sam Harris
Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. — Christopher Hitchens
Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being… — Tom Hodgkinson
Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear… — Tom Hodgkinson
The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time,… — Arianna Huffington
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards. — Thomas Huxley
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium… — Molly Ivins
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our… — William James
Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building… — Philip Johnson
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our… — Samuel Johnson
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in… — Erica Jong
Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35… — Meir Kahane
A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a… — Marcy Kaptur
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in… — Soren Kierkegaard
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into… — Barbara Kingsolver
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears-… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of… — Akshay Kumar
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper… — Anne Lamott
If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and… — Annie Lennox
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No,… — Abraham Lincoln
Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some… — Haniel Long

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