S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Surely the Mother Above loved my children more. She took so many of them away from me.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.”
“Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.”
“Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.”
“Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs.”
“Surely the Shadowhunter community must honor you and hold you in high esteem as a gentleman who has truly advanced their race. No, Henry said sadly. Mostly they wish that I would stop suggesting new inventions and cease setting fire to things.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“Surely the stars are images of love.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…
“Surely the thing God enjoys most about being God is the thrill of being merciful, especially to those who don't expect it and often feel they don't deserve it.”
“Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.”
“Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.”
“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.”
“Surely the Women were created (...) for some better end, than to labour in vain their whole life long.”
Source: Woman Not Inferior to Man
“Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.”
“Surely the world will be a better place, at least marginally, if people have a better understanding of Kant and Hegel, if Marx's thought its studied and appreciated, if people gain a better understanding of Fichte, whose philosophy is far more important than people realize.”
“Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.”
“Surely there can be no greater joy than that of saving souls.”
“Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.”
“Surely there could not be any doctrine more strongly expressed in the scriptures than the Lord’s unchanging commandments and their connection to our happiness and well-being as individuals, as families, and as a society.”
“Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment; and, Something had passed darkly and gone!”
Source: Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales
“Surely there is a fitness in the institution of the Lord's Supper as a standing memorial by which the church at large may commemorate the grandest act, and by which the heart of each individual believer may be reminded of his dearest friend. You, who have learned to love the Saviour, will prize His ordinance for the Saviour's sake. You who rejoice in the salvation purchased by His dying, will not fail with gratitude and faith to show the Lord's death until He come.”
“Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly that has designed and presented all of the clues that we need to navigate life with some degree of grace, and perhaps with a greater degree of happiness than we now have.”
Source: The Nature of Things - Navigating Everyday Life with Grace
“Surely there is a light in that boy that will never go out, no matter what he has to face along the way. That's all a father can hope for his child, that a little fire will burn in them to keep them going, to keep them strong.”
Source: Southernmost
“Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.”
Source: Aphorisms of Thomas Huxley
“Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.”
Source: The garden of a commuter's wife
“Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.”
“Surely there is not a capitalist or well-informed person in this world today who believes that [World War I] is being fought to make the world safe for democracy. It is being fought to make the world safe for capital.”
“Surely there is nothing so ungracious, nor nothing so cruel, but men will hold therewith, if it be once approved by custom.”
Source: Against War
“Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.”
Source: Absalom, Absalom!
“Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.”
“Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?”
“Surely there is the handful of nursery marchen that start, ‘Once in the middle of a forest lived an old witch’ or ‘The devil was out walking one day and met a child,’ " Said Oatsie, who was showing that she had some education as well as grit. "To the grim poor there need be no pour quoi tale about where evil arises; it always is. One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not the devil? It is at the very least a question of definitions.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life?”
“Surely there must be in a world of manifold beautiful things something among them for me. And always, while I am still young, there is that dim light, the Future. But it is indeed a dim, dim light, and ofttimes there's a treachery in it.”
Source: I Await the Devil's Coming
“Surely, there must be people like her everywhere. People who get up in the morning, wipe their children's noses, walk down the street, show up at work, or go to school while calling on every ounce of careful grooming and good manners to make it look like it's no trouble at all. Surely, she is not the only person holding in a world of hurt that pushes against their skin like water against the walls of a dam.”
Source: Good Dirt
“Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.”
Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.”
“Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“Surely there were others like me, born without an inkling of direction. The wanderers, the amblers, the dabblers, united by our purposeless mantra-I have no idea what to do with my life.”
Source: Coffeehouse Angel
“Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.”
Source: Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals
“Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.”
“Surely this is the objectionable kind of ignorance, to think one knows
what one does not know? But in this, gentlemen, here also perhaps I
am different from the general run of mankind, and if I should claim
to be wiser than someone in something it would be in this, that as I
do not know well enough about what happens in the house of Hades,
so I do not think I know.”
“Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence.”
Source: At Your Pleasure
“Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?”
“Surely those who know the great passionate heart of Jehovah must deny their own loves to share in the expression of His.”
“Surely tis by faith we are upheld thro such trials-justice will be meted in time to those who fill soft places and malign men who perform heroic duties”
“Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends entirely upon its objectivity and non-practical, non-partisan passion.”
Source: The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator
“Surely traditions have to evolve?
Surely daughters can choose their own happiness?
Surely our world can handle this new virus?”
Source: Grace Notes