#surely

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

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#confess #cup #easier #front #jury

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid? ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#been #behind #century #could #decade

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#heart #life #more #perishable #resides

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#complex #consequences #fact #foreign #foreign policy

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

#best way #enemy #field #head #homes

As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#calming #composer #desire #down #energy

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

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

#demonstrate #existence #god #his #known