#surely

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

— Saul Williams

#ever #more #more people #people #poetry

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart. ↗

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

#awareness #come #contentment #grace #grateful

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

#any #fiction #heart #job #kind

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#champagne #enjoy #having #host #over

The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts. ↗

— Sadaharu Oh

#efforts #make #ready #rewarded #simply

Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#better #better job #defense #department #existing

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#certain #conduct #fellow-men #fixed #general

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

#earth #exalted #holy #immutable #impressive

The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#first #gay #i #met #person

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#always #better #inherent #instinct #others