#surely

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#alarm #both #counterparts #his #invasion

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#carrier #expression #help #idea #inherent

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#careful #heart #set #surely #upon

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#average #being #culture #does #exist

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#anything #financed #had #i #impossible

No man surely has so short a memory as the American. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#man #memory #short #surely

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#choice #desire #doing #good #happiness

Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#banks #believed #bill #case #change

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

— Galileo Galilei

#harmful #heresy #make #proved #souls

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