S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Surely it is the unseen work of the Lord in our lives, that eventually promotes us to the place of our destiny.”
Source: You Can't See My Bodyguard: Trusting in Your Ever-Present God
“Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago.”
“Surely it is worthwhile to lay ourselves out with all our might in promoting the cause and kingdom of Christ.”
“Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.”
“Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind”
Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
“Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.”
“Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.”
“Surely it was illegal for someone to look so classy and graceful having fallen asleep on train.”
Source: Detour to Love
“Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“Surely it wasn't possible that Vin diPietro was the first assignment. "Hello?" DiPietro waved. "You in there?" Nah, Jim thought. Can't be. That would be above and beyond any call of duty. Over the guy's shoulder, the commercial that was on the TV suddenly showed a price of $49.99-no, $29.99, with a little red arrow that ... considering where Vin was standing, poined right at his head. "Sh*t, no" Jim muttered. This was the guy? On the Tv screen, some woman in a pink bathrobe smiled up at the camera and mouthed, Yes, it is!”
“Surely it's better to live in the country, to live on a prairie by a drawing of rivers, in Iowa or Illinois or Indiana, say, than in any city, in any stinking fog of human beings, in any blooming orchard of machines. It ought to be.”
Source: In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories
“Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.”
Source: Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Life In and Out of the Convent
“Surely it's time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.”
“Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future--all of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added another--knowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight.”
Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand
“Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“Surely little remained of the Puritan legacy of prudish rectitude, he thought: surely this was now a country of excess, gluttony, lust, and sloth; surely this had grown into a land where obesity reigned and even the poor moved ponderously down the street on big thighs that rubbed fatly together. What had become of the pilgrims' gaunt and stingy oversight? He knew in part it was the visionary genius of enterprising men, but such entrepreneurs were only the tools of a hungry culture. For the descendants of those gray, upright pioneers had cherished cravings for beef patties with ketchup, deep-fried chicken and vats of ice cream, chemically scented and dyed all the colors of the rainbow, and billions upon billions of gallons of soda. Their thirst had never been quite slaked and so they never finished drinking; and this was the market in all its streamlined functionality—which, precisely where the supply and the demand curves crossed, had swiftly produced a nation of paralyzed giants, fallen across their couches much as soldiers on the field of battle, their arteries hard, their softened hearts failing.
The market made a fool of you by giving you what you wanted. But this did not make him resent it; it merely earned his respect. From the day you were born you were called upon to discern what to choose.”
Source: How the Dead Dream
“Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness
“Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.”
Source: The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Illustrated)
“Surely love is both work and wages.”
Source: The Saints' Everlasting Rest
“Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.”
Source: The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: containing fifty four sermons and discourses on several occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith. Being all that were published by His Grace himself and now collected into one volume, to which is added an alphabetical table of the principle matter
“Surely mortal man is a broomstick!”
“Surely my macking on some guy in an insane asylum wouldn't hurt him. He'd been living with his stalker, for heaven's sake.”
Source: The Charley Davidson Series
“Surely Nicasia would expect more of Cardan's mother than the thin gruel of emotion she has served her son.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.”
“Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq.”
“Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life.”
“Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.”
Source: Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities
“Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'”
“Surely no one else lived like this - burdened by the tiniest details they assumed had enormous consequences. Surely no one else was so anchored by anxiety. Other people could stumble and shake their heads and move on. How she envied their lightness.”
Source: Katabasis
“Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the "principles of modern salesmanship" on which business men so much pride themselves, are brilliantly exemplified in Jesus' talk and work.”
Source: The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus
“Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.”
Source: Goliath
“Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.”
“Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain the instinct for survival, not to speak of minimal concern for their fellow man, will seek ways to act before rather than after the event.”
“Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.”
Source: Selected Writings
“Surely none are so mad as those who are content to live unprepared to die.”
Source: Thoughts for Young Men
“Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.”
“Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dependence on the weather and the wind, for the only blessings which nature has put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. To look up to the sky for the nutriment of our bodies, is the condition of nature; to call upon the sun for peace and gaiety, or deprecate the clouds lest sorrow should overwhelm us, is the cowardice of idleness, and the idolatry of folly.”
Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings
“Surely nothing was so perfect. For while the world was always changing, people usually stayed the same. It was an interesting illusion, much like a river that looks familiar year after year, even though the water that flows through it is completely different.”
“Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous than in the capital of the United States, because the chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawn so wide and deep.”
“Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.”
Source: The Works of Horace
“Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.”
Source: A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
“Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.”
“Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all its varying forms, perhaps then we would understand ourselves better. The question of course is whether the other animals would approve of it.”
“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
“Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.”
“Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.”
Source: Letters to the Clergy on the Lord's Prayer and the Church
“Surely our language is the image of our soul”
“Surely part of the moral meaning of representative government is that the representatives from all parts of a vast nation coming together in a great mosaic not only represent the interests and visions of their respective localities but also then learn from each other, affect each other, reason together, diminish their respective provincialisms, and shape something nearer to the common good.”
Source: Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography
“Surely people can now see that it is no accident that he, Obama, sat at the feet of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright for 20 years, that he is mother was a leftist activist and cultural Marxist, that his main early mentor was radical Frank Marshall Davis, that he was a member of the far-left New Party in Chicago, that his main vocation in life has been street organizing and agitation and that he didn't think the revolutionarily, transformative Warren court was liberal enough.”
“Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.”