#surely

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#confess #cup #easier #front #jury

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

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#foundation #mind #only #sound #state

I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#better #child #completely #deal #different

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid? ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#been #behind #century #could #decade

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#heart #life #more #perishable #resides

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#complex #consequences #fact #foreign #foreign policy

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#best way #enemy #field #head #homes

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#bring #earth #enough #find #give

Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#aid #appreciation #bringing #countries #defending