S Quotes
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“Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.”
“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.”
Source: The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference
“Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.”
“Surely goodness and mercy can be more choosy.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“Surely growth is the problem and not the solution? Growth is mostly about buying things we don’t really need to impress people we don’t really like.”
“Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.”
Source: History of New York. Sketch book. Bracebridge Hall
“Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.”
Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book
“Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.”
“Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46
“Surely he knows we are all watching. That I am watching. It is always that way when you are in a group and someone decides to go for a swim or walk to the water. The ocean is a giant stage. It is natural that the others watch, if only for a moment.”
Source: Something Borrowed: A Novel
“Surely he loved me. Right? Why wouldn't he just say it? We're alone, Maxon. If you say it, I'll say it back.”
Source: The One
“Surely,” he said, “the great mountains of the world are a present remedy if men did but know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom’s fount. They are deep in time. They know the ways of the sun and the wind, the lightning’s fiery feet, the frost that shattereth, the rain that shroudeth, the snow that putteth about their nakedness a softer coverlet than fine lawn.”
Source: The worm Ouroboros
“Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.”
Source: Novels, 1930-1935
“Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.”
“Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.”
“Surely I can't be the first woman to try and hide from you?" She got out, grateful she'd worn her heavy boots, which always made her feel a bit like Lara Croft.
"Oh, is that what you were doing? You're so short, I just assumed you were normally eye-level with the steering wheel.”
Source: For Butter or Worse
“Surely I'd give it for a nipple a rubber Tacitus
For a rattle bag of broken Bach records
Tack Della Francesca all over its crib
Sew the Greek alphabet on its bib
And build for its playpen a roofless Parthenon”
“Surely I have contemplated the things of God.”
“Surely I must be a princess in an enchanted sleep. Any day now, this dream-no, nightmare would end, and I’d get my prince and happy ending.”
Source: Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel
“Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?”
“Surely if each one saw another's heart, There would be no commerce, No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse And live apart.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.”
“Surely if He would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it can never be imagined that ever He should, after this, deny or withhold from His people, for whose sakes all this was suffered, any mercies, any comforts, any privilege, spiritual or temporal, which is good for them.”
“Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.”
“Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.”
Source: Sermons on the Parables
“Surely if one doesn’t find sex tiresome in life, it won’t be tiresome in fiction,’ said the Junior Dean. ‘I do find it tiresome in life,’ Dr Matthews replied. ‘Or rather, I find other people’s concern with it tiresome. One is told about it and told and told!”
Source: The Gate of Angels
“Surely, if one's self can love Christ for what He was and what He did, then one's self should be able to love modern man?”
Source: Love, Leda
“Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.”
Source: The Duties of Parents
“Surely, if there was someone there, Izzy would still be going nuts. The little dog was a Chihuahua, poodle, and terrier mix. Terriers and Chihuahuas were good watchdogs by nature.”
Source: Southern Sass and Killer Cravings
“Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.”
Source: Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy
“Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.”
Source: Kushiel's Dart
“Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.”
“Surely in Judas' betrayal it will be no more right, because God both willed that his Son be delivered up, and delivered him up to death, to ascribe the guilt of the crime to God than to transfer the credit for redemption to Judas.”
“Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore, be a Phocion or Pythagorean, to speak briefly to the point or not at all; let him labor like them of Crete, to show more wit in his discourse than words, and not to pour out of his mouth a flood of the one, when he can hardly wring out of his brains a drop of the other.”
“Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“Surely it could not be the same party. It looked like a warzone. The floating chandelier had crashed and shattered on the dance floor, freeing the now- dark floating orbs. People ran madly for the exit. Some were being chased by pickax-wielding dwarves, to say nothing of the ogres. The floor was littered with frogs. Hopefully they weren’t enchanted princes, because some of them were getting squished by the mob.”
Source: Spelled
“Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.”
“Surely it is a matter of joy, that your faith in Jesus has been preserved; the Comforter that should relieve you is not far from you. But as you are a Christian, in the name of that Saviour, who was filled with bitterness and made druken with wormwood, I conjre you to have recourse in frequent prayer to 'his God and your God,' the God of mercies, and father of all comfort. Your poor father is, I hope, almost senseless of the calamity; the unconscious instrument of Divine Providence knows it not, and your mother is in heaven.”
Source: The Letters of Charles Lamb: To which are Added Those of His Sister, Mary Lamb. Edited by E.V. Lucas
“Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.”
Source: Thirteen Moons: A Novel
“Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist - except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.”
“Surely it is better, thought Domenica, that forty-five should buy the book and actually read it, than should many thousands, indeed millions, buy it and put it on their shelves, like...Professor Hawking's Brief History of Time. That was a book that had been bought by millions, but had been demonstrated to have been read by only a minute proportion of those who had acquired it. For do we not all have a copy of that on our shelves, and who amongst us can claim to have read beyond the first page, in spite of the pellucid prose of its author and his evident desire to share with us his knowledge of...of whatever it is that the book is about?”
Source: The World According to Bertie
“Surely it is clear that this nation will continue to suffer so long as it is governed by the present ineffective Democratic administration.
"THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF CALUMNY"
Yet to displace it with a Republican regime embracing a philosophy that lacks political integrity or intellectual honesty would prove equally disastrous to the nation. The nation sorely needs a Republican victory. But I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny--Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.
I doubt if the Republican party could do so, simply because I do not believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely we Republicans are not that desperate for victory.
I do not want to see the Republican party win that way. While it might be a fleeting victory for the Republican party, it would be a more lasting defeat for the American people. Surely it would ultimately be suicide for the Republican party and the two-party system that has protected our American liberties from the dictatorship of a one-party system.
As members of the minority party, we do not have the primary authority to formulate the policy of our government. But we do have the responsibility of rendering constructive criticism, of clarifying issues, of allaying fears by acting as responsible citizens.”
“Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.”
Source: Castle Rackrent: And Irish Bulls
“Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“Surely it is obvious that this generation desperately needs silence and solitude. Life can be utterly transformed by quietness.”
“Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that the mysteries of the toilet shall not be suggested by it; that the steps to its completion shall be knocked away like the sculptor's ladder from the statue, and the mental force expended upon it be swept away out of sight like the chips on the studio floor.”
“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.”
“Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.”
“Surely it is the one who fears he is wrong who avoids criticism. The one who is sure he is right invites it. It only illuminates the strength of beliefs and makes them more available to others.”
Source: Epistemology: The Justification of Belief
“Surely it is the right wish that draws us to the right place. Nothing of importance happens accidentally in our life.”
Source: The Way Of The White Clouds