Surely Quotes

People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview.

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.

Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

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.

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

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.

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.