#surely

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

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing. ↗

— Vance Havner

#leads #more #surely #talking #than

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#hazards #own #submit #surely #take

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

— James A. Baldwin

#careful #heart #set #surely #upon

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. ↗

— Fanny Burney

#despise #dispense #indeed #mankind #may

Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#am #charge #i #i am #south

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