Surely Quotes
1760 Surely quotes by 1196 unique authors
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Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.
— Nancy Reagan
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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I make a lot of money. I can take a pay cut. All my friends are taking pay cuts that are in the unions, that…
— Kid Rock
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At the age of ten, I thought if a boy kissed you on the lips, you would have a baby, and I surely wasn't the…
— Ginger Rogers
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People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed…
— Mitt Romney
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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
— Leo Rosten
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You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be…
— Bertrand Russell
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Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times…
— Jonathan Sacks
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Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight…
— Jonathan Sacks
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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
— Francis Schaeffer
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For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we…
— Stacy Schiff
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
— Adam Smith
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I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM…
— Zadie Smith
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.
— Rod Stewart
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The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic…
— James Surowiecki
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If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
— Alice Walker
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
— H.G. Wells
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Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium…
— John Archibald Wheeler
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The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.
— Simon Wiesenthal
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If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is…
— George Will
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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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