Surely Quotes

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

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.

Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

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!

The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.