#surely

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#evils #good #our #our world #surely

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry. ↗

— Saul Williams

#ever #more #more people #people #poetry

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#continue #days #heroic #likely #material

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? ↗

— George Orwell

#any #appears #cannot #creed #draw

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. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#activities #bin #care #does #enemy

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#certain #conduct #fellow-men #fixed #general

We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#before #foster #leisurely #little #mount

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death. ↗

— Zane Grey

#blood #cold #dark #death #embrace

Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#cynical #denies #end #entertainments #experience

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#earth #exalted #holy #immutable #impressive