In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
William Barclay

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

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

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
Francis Bacon

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
Thomas Aquinas

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
Robert Bly

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

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
Galileo Galilei

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
John Millington Synge

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

Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
Walter Kaufmann

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Viktor E. Frankl

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.
Saul Williams

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
Rebecca H. Davis

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.
Joni Mitchell

On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.
James Cronin

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
John Masefield

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. Wells

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould