#surely

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

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

As surely as I am the living God, everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#before #confess #everyone #god #i

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#everything #happen #happens #never #once

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#art #even #gesture #grasp #greater

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#alarm #both #counterparts #his #invasion

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#demonstrate #existence #god #his #known

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

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

The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#first #gay #i #met #person