Surely Quotes

1760 Surely quotes by 1196 unique authors

With every mistake, we must surely be learning. — George Harrison
Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of… — Charles Dickens
Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in… — Kiran Desai
We will surely get to our destination if we join hands. — Aung San Suu Kyi
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you… — Walt Whitman
Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them echo… — Louise GluÌˆck
No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more… — Margaret Atwood
A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man… — James Allen
He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a… — George Orwell
She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely,… — Jane Austen
If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form… — Julian Barnes
Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly. — Alice Munro
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and… — Virginia Woolf
Surely there can't be so many countries worth dying for.' Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.' And anything worth dying for,'… — Joseph Heller
Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade. — Patricia Briggs
To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore… — Pearl S. Buck
The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea… — Kurt Vonnegut
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place… — Gordon B. Hinckley
We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in… — Kurt Vonnegut
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where… — Madeleine L'Engle
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is… — Joyce Carol Oates
As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home. — Jack Kornfield
In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart. — Marianne Williamson
Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love. — Alice Walker
...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch… — Toni Morrison

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