#surely

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

— Robert Bly

#calamity #great #human #human being #obsessions

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#argue #ever #facts #fit #here

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. ↗

— Thucydides

#before #bravest #clearest #danger #glory

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#beyond #challenges #contending #grow #handle

The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control. ↗

— Stuart Varney

#chrysler #control #controls #future #gm

The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies. ↗

— Terry Waite

#destroys #dies #extinguish #life #light

Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us. ↗

— Francis Wright

#arrive #attentive #authorities #dictum #examine

A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#alternative #clear #collapse #expect #happen

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

#begin #coerced #could #dream #duty

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory? ↗

— Nancy Mitford

#glory #king #less #loves #pleasure