Quotes with surely

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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • George Gilder Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.
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  • Bayard Rustin Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Caroline Knapp Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction is hard to counter.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Anne Tyler The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Thucydides The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
    Thucydides
    Athenian historian and general (460 - 400)
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  • Al Stewart The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
    Al Stewart
    Scottish singer-songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler 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 of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Arianna Huffington The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • B. W. Powe The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
    Towards A Canada of Light A Prayer For Canada, p. 13
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Alice Munro The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Terry Waite The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
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  • Peter Ackroyd The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Sir Thomas Browne There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Benjamin Haydon There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Buddha Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • General Omar Bradley Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead.
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