#surely

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#any #fiction #heart #job #kind

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. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#champagne #enjoy #having #host #over

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#american #american dream #boldly #chance #country

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. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#ballot #ballot box #beauty #box #bread

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. ↗

— Anne Spencer

#alone #breakfast #enough #how #husband

What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit. ↗

— Isabel Yosito

#charm #electrified #i #i am #over

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#burden #chiefly #conventional #credited #falls

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#idea #life #long #loved #made

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. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#aid #appreciation #bringing #countries #defending

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. ↗

— Fanny Burney

#despise #dispense #indeed #mankind #may