Quotes with surely

  • Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
  • If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
  • Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
  • Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
  • If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
  • One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
  • Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
  • There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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  • Norman Cousins A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carl Sagan If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
    Ann Druyan (2011) 354
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • H.G. Wells One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Aristophanes Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Buddha 'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' - those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Malcolm Bradbury A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
    Malcolm Bradbury
    English author and academic (1932 - 2000)
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  • William Booth 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 squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
    William Booth
    English Methodist preacher (1829 - 1912)
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  • Anne Spencer A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
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  • Bertolt Brecht And I always thought: the very simplest words
    Must be enough. When I say what things are like
    Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds.
    That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself
    Surely you see that.
    Poems, 1913-1956 And I always thought [Und ich dachte immer] (c. 19
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Raymond Chandler Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Alice Walker Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • James Baldwin Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Francis Schaeffer Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
    Francis Schaeffer
    American theologian and philosopher (1912 - 1984)
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  • Agatha Christie But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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