#surely

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

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

— Mary Schmich

#first #gay #i #met #person

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#country #his #humanity #most #pacifist

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

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#christian #eastern #islam #religions #stop

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#about #brought #circumstances #conditions #criteria

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

The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts. ↗

— Sadaharu Oh

#efforts #make #ready #rewarded #simply

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