#surely

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#going #her #i #me #mother

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

The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#lands #longer #may #moon #nothing

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#conceal #game #like #our #play

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. ↗

— William Morris

#arts #civilization #competition #degradation #die

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

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#also #around #express #foot #get

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

Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#brown #economy #effective #fiscal #get