All Quotes

Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
‐‐ Bob Uecker

Sure, you always put some of your own experience into a film.
‐‐ Gillian Armstrong

Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?
‐‐ Sandra Lee

Sure, you're an intelligent and highly capable individual, and you are learning a lot on the fly as you build your company. But you also need to come to terms with the fact that there are things you have chosen not to be an expert in.
‐‐ Kathryn Minshew

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
‐‐ Lydia Lunch

Sure, you would lose more bombers without fighters, but, flying in formation, you could get the job done.
‐‐ Stuart Symington

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
‐‐ Dorothea Lange

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
‐‐ Nancy Mitford

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

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

Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
‐‐ Alex Kapranos

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

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
‐‐ Bayard Rustin

Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.
‐‐ Rod Stewart

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
‐‐ Charles Babbage

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.
‐‐ Mortimer Zuckerman

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
‐‐ Andrew Young

Surely in a world of email, video conferencing and virtual assistants, isn't being expected to show up at the office extremely anachronistic? Yet to date it seems that where one works does matter. That creativity and innovation do feed off physical interactions between people.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
‐‐ Maria Edgeworth

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

Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago.
‐‐ Meir Kahane

Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
‐‐ Frances Wright

Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction is hard to counter.
‐‐ Caroline Knapp

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
‐‐ Thomas Dekker

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
‐‐ Katharine Lee Bates

Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

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

Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
‐‐ Haniel Long

Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home, and, above all, of the quietness and purity of English domestic life.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.
‐‐ Michael Arlen

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

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.
‐‐ David Hare

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.
‐‐ Nigel Short

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

Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.
‐‐ Alice Dreger

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

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

Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.
‐‐ Josephine Baker

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.
‐‐ Thurgood Marshall

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
‐‐ Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
‐‐ E. M. Forster

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

Surely the wake left behind by mankind's forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin