The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
We protect our banks, hospitals and airports with armed personnel; surely, we can do more to protect schools, which teach our nation’s most valuable resource.
Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity – and love.
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
Being a host is a completely new role for me and I am surely enjoying it.
Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.
If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he’s not an irrational man. He’s a very worthy enemy. He’s an enemy to worry about.
By neglecting education, the 1974 Labour government failed as surely as on the picket lines of Grunwick.
The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.
Back To Dad’ gives a message that every youngster should learn and this is surely going to leave a very strong impact on the masses.
I think that if you are a serious writer, you are almost obligated to provide the intelligent average reader with something that they can relate to and care about. If you are writing only for a tiny elite, then that surely should sound alarm bells.
Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.
I think I would have appreciated being at home with my kids a little bit more. Raising a child, surely that in itself is the biggest thing we’re ever going to do?
The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one’s husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
People give the South a bad rap. It’s often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true. But I think that the South is changing, slowly but surely.
Education, leading to financial independence, has surely made women more empowered.
Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.
No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.
While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.
While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more important work is to be done in this world than preparing our children to be God-fearing, happy, honorable, and productive.
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?’
I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.
A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
Slowly but surely, people don’t see ‘Popstars: The Rivals,’ they see Girls Aloud. We’re a band in our own right.
They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day.
Had I been to Uttarakhand in the ’80s and ’90s, surely I would have filmed many scenes of my films here.
Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.
If we seek things that are virtuous and lovely, we surely will find them. Conversely, if we seek for evil, we will find that also.
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy’s doubts is invincible.
When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.
While I am open to doing a Gujarati film, I don’t want to be a part of anything stereotypical. It has to be something out of the box, if something like that comes up, I will surely do it.
Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.
I always tell young film-makers, ‘Find the song that only you can sing.’ It doesn’t just come to you. It’s trial and error and disappointment before you find, slowly but surely, the confidence to express your film-making identity.
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don’t believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution – even though the collateral damage may be heartbreaking. Mrs. Thatcher’s strident, take-no prisoners approach was in some ways repugnant, but it was surely necessary.
Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to him as if Poe were one of the black slaves; some of the students at UVA surely felt the same about being told what to do by faculty.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
I think cinema is a reflection of the society and whatever is being shown is because of the climate we’re living in. It is relevant, topical, and surely somewhere it’s impacting people who can relate to these circumstances.
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.
Labour’s mission is to democratise Britain: but first, it must surely democratise itself.
The more power you have, the more surely it will be taken from you before you are ready to give it up.
Growing up in the ’50s and being in the ’60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you’re going to be free, you have to be free from something.
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ’s religion has been changed and corrupted.
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.
Alternatives to oil are coming up. In the long run, it is not going to be as bleak as people are predicting but surely consumption of fuel by automobile sector is going to go down.
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
No matter how little we think anatomy should matter to one’s social and political rights, surely we can’t pretend biology doesn’t matter in sports. Surely there’s a reason we don’t let adults play in the t-ball leagues, and a reason most women athletes want their own leagues.
