#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

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

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

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#inaction #our #poor #precedent #respect

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

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

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

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life? ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#course #earth #life #most #succeed