Surely Quotes

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Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes… — Carl Sagan
Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people,… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy. — Mahatma Gandhi
If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash. — George Washington
Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs. — Alan Greenspan
The gang that trashed the town was now back in town to trash it even more and you'll never guess.. they decided that the only… — David Icke
Slowly, but surely, we are moving in the right direction. We're on the right track. The economy is getting stronger — Barack Obama
One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do important problems, then… — Richard Hamming
Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain… — Noam Chomsky
Are global temperatures rising? Surely, they were rising from the late 1970s to 1998, but 'there has been no net global warming since 1998.' Indeed,… — John R. Lott Jr.
Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter of… — Navi Pillay
If we do not act together, we will surely perish. — Leonardo DiCaprio
...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single… — Howard Zinn
If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the… — Mother Teresa
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven. — Washington Irving
You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you… — Gerald Durrell
Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and pieces of disassembled… — Walker Evans
Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few… — Derrick Bell
... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written… — Thurgood Marshall
I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat… — Bill W.
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some… — Raymond Chandler
Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit. — Radclyffe Hall
The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself. Man may have… — Frederick Forsyth
One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. — James Madison

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