#surely

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#anything #financed #had #i #impossible

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. ' ↗

— Annie Lennox

#feminist #free #i #inherited #morally

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#character #else #fails #jest #man

That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#again #anyone #child #concern #costly

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal. ↗

— Alice Munro

#feel #i #i feel #know #learned

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#attract #dress #laws #shall #simplest

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. ↗

— Plato

#i #knowledge #said #socrates #soul

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn. ↗

— David Ricardo

#certainly #classes #commercial #corn #encouragement

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#art #been #danger #end #experience

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. ↗

— John Adams

#mankind #property #real #right #surely