Surely Quotes

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about.

The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

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.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.

On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

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.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

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 as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?