Quotation Explorer - 'Surely'

God may not give us what we want but He surely blesses us with what we need. - Ashbeel Roy
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years. - T.K. Naliaka
To mock something is pure ignorance. Intelligent people even open themselves to things that they don't understand. […] When an ignorant praises something, it won't probably be something profound. Surely it can't be the Principle that guides us. - Alfonso Colodrón
Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply. - Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
Let not our trials of this day be our final sentence. For our difficulties of today is definitely shared by another in our world. Therefore, be encouraged and don't give up because tomorrow a new dawn will surely shine, and once we have life we have the most precious gift-. - Genevieve Sarpong
I am surely a creature. For what human has two hearts? But I have two hearts— one is always broken; the other is always whole. - C. JoyBell C.
Love surely is said to be blind but at times it takes blind turns. - Amit Abraham
Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong.
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don’t even see. It’s a messy business, bringing peace into the world. - Bono
You have to work at having quality in your church, because people that are influential in your city may be God’s instruments for resolving all kinds of problems that will most surely come up in the future. - Sunday Adelaja
I want to be free, I want to be happy, I want to be at peace, I want to be me. I guess what I want in this world is what money surely brings. Don't blame me, for the Bible says "Money Answers All Things! - Tice Davids aka David T. Parker
Life is all about exploring yourself, discovering yourself and grooming yourself, then you will surely stop negative thinking. - Ehabib
How many people came and stayed a certain time,Uttered light or dark speech that became part of youLike light behind windblown fog and sandFiltered and influenced by it, until no partRemains that is surely you. - John Ashbery
One of the greatest source of danger in life is to find the right path and stand on it. If you find the right way, run on it, don't stand on it. Something may be coming from behind; it will surely crush you when you are static. - Israelmore Ayivor
There are things that humans cannot stop a human's will, dream, and the change of an era. As long a humans long for freedom he surely cannot stop these things - Monkey D. Dragon
Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does. - James Hilton
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely-- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it. - Krishnamurti
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his. - Franklin P. Jones
At our age, surely there are better things to sustain us, to sustain a marriage, than the brief flame of passion?" ..."You are mistaken, Ernest," she said at last. "There is only the passionate spark. Without it, two people living together may be lonelier than if they lived quite alone. - Helen Simonson
Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind. - Jonathan Edwards
Believe me, You will surely see the light. even if you are in a darkest room though, It will go in through small holes in your room. - Chandra Bobby
We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature. - Abraham Lincoln
There is one type of gambling which should always be encouraged. It is betting on goodness. When a person has wronged you, be good to him. If he adds insult to injury, double the bet. And keep on doubling it. You will surely win! - J.P. Vaswani
We might not be able to change the entire world but we can surely leave a mark by positively touching people's lives one at a time. - Lyra Parish
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words. - Joyce Brothers
Blame is such a self-defeating choice. It renders one helpless, putting any solution well out of reach, for we rarely can change others. Consider this, a solution well within your reach, someone you can surely change: Yourself. - Russell Kyle
What you choose to do in this life will surely affect you in the next... Just do good, even when it's very hard to do so. It's your soul that's on the line. - R.D. Gennari
No one can surely know what knowledge is without the presence of truth. - Sorin Cerin
When psychologically unfit form the majority in any sect, and yet proclaim to be the only fittest, will not only be a threat to the existence of the sane minority, but are surely catastrophic for the human race as a whole! - Ramana Pemmaraju
After all, what is your hosts' 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
Never ever play with the feelings of others. If you think you have played with the feelings of another and have won, you better think again you might of won the game but you surely may have lost that person forever. - Angie karan
One shouldn't envy another person's Destiny!As the fate written for everyone is not the same but surely a good one. - raja shakeel mushtaque
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. - Alice Walker
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone? - E.A. Bucchianeri
He who knows everything about the future must surely be a cursed person! Because life is beautiful if you do not know what life will bring you! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Put your seed in the soil, no matter the dormancy period, with faith, there shall surely be germination - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
What I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport. - Albert Camus
And that you seek forgiveness of your Lord, and then turn to Him. He will provide for you a goodly provision until an appointed term. And He will grant His grace to every one possessed of merit. And if you turn away, then surely, I fear for you the punishment of a dreadful day. - Anonymous The Quran
Stop and say something good about yourself! Believe what you have just said! Pray for what you have just believed! Have faith for what you just prayed for! Work out that faith! ...and surely goodness and mercy shall follow you! - Israelmore Ayivor
I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know. - Bill W.
And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life. - Oscar Wilde
As you and I take Personal Responsibility for mending the things that are out of order in our community and nation in general, we would surely witness a transformed, developed and civilized society. - Sunday Adelaja
If your grip on coins of life is not strong enough than they will gradually slip away from your hands,for surely one day you will find that your hands are empty - Kiran
Ah, so that must have been her mystery: she had discovered a trail into the forest. Surely that was where she went during her absences. Returning with her eyes filled with gentleness & ignorance, eyes made whole. An ignorance so vast that inside it all the world's wisdom could be contained & lost. - Clarice Lispector
Just be focus, and continue on the path way of life. What goes around will surely come around. - Shola Azeez Oyeyinka
Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future. - Michelle Cruz-Rosado
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much. - George Eliot
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy. - W. Somerset Maugham
Lucretia Jane Price. A sweet name for a sweet lady that smelled of roses, spoke with a sweet drawl, and was surely made of all the sweet country things a man who hadn't eaten a good meal in a long time could imagine -- molasses, sweet peas, sweet corn, freshly churned butter. - Linda Leigh Hargrove
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. - Abraham Lincoln
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. - Adam Smith
If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it. - Ezra Bowen
The best advice comes from the one who has made more mistakes– they have learned great lessons! The one who always got it right has surely not lived through the entire experience. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
The more deeper you think, the more silence you become. You understand the reasons behind the reason. It may not necessarily mean you are short of words. You however know what ignorance can trigger and how to deal with ignorance and purpose. The timeliness of your word is surely on point - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We all seek that somewhere to which we belong and that somewhere is surely not here! - Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Anytime you wonder about something, keep in mind and remember, there is something that can make you a wonder! Just ponder and take action in the right direction, and you shall surely be a wonder! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It is arrogant to believe that you know what is true for you. Surely you know in your own life with you that you cannot be trusted. - Matt Chandler
If the spirit of wonder & curiosity stays alive in us, then surely we will always have new questions, and always expand our creativity in response? - Jay Woodman
Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest. - Thomas Carlyle
Surely your longings and feelings arise from the God who created you. They were created in order to be filled, not crushed. Surely we shall find peace not by eliminating desire, but by finding its fulfillment and satisfaction in the One who created it. - Sundar Singh
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! - Louise Bogan
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. - Bible
If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness, Envy, Greed, Jr., Gluttony, Lust, Anger and Pride. - John R. Dallas Jr.
If your happy and you know it a smiley face will surely show it : ) Netiquette by NetworkEtiquette.net - David Chiles
She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry. - Wendell Berry
Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren. - C.H.SPURGEON
Your actions may not directly define the kind of person you are but the words that come out your mouth surely will. - Val Irvin Mabayo
The fog may seem thick but the sun will surely pierce through and brighten up the sky. Allow yourself to continue to rest on the wings of God's love and watch yourself learn to soar high. - Kemi Sogunle
make your worst day is the best day in your life,because surely there's something missing within our self without it,so we can be who we are now ,the wiser and the mature one - Faiz Triumph
No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable. - Adam Smith
Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us. - Robert Southey
If a tiny bud dares unfold to a wakening new world, if a narrow blade of grass dares to poke its head up from an unlit earth, then surely I can rise and stretch my winter weary bones, surely I can set my face to the spring sun. Surely, I too can be reborn. - Toni Sorenson
Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps. - Andrea Dworkin
Do not force your children to behave like you, for surely they have been created for a time which is different to your time - Ali ibn-e-Abu Talib
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Be true to yourself, be positive, always keep a clear mind and don’t stress. Be goal driven and with a strong will power, your career will surely kick off. Relationship wise be faithful and love your man, and the rest is self explanatory because it’s not rocket science. - Jenelle Joanne Ramsami
The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. That’s the right that went first in every nation that stumbled down the trail toward totalitarianism. - Edward R. Murrow
The more deeper you think, the more silent you become. You understand the reasons behind the reason. It may not necessarily mean you are short of words. You however know what ignorance can trigger and how to deal with ignorance and purpose. The timeliness of your word is surely on point. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Giving up on a purposeful journey of life is as deadly as death! When you pursue with tenacity, and strive through the adversities and the vicissitudes of life with a mind of fortitude and get to the end of the journey, you shall surely see life. Awake! Arise and go! Never ever give up!!! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The ladder of success is there waiting for you... you just have to realize it and reach towards and climb as high as you can you will surely be successful. - Noor Ahmad
You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed. - Elizabeth Aston
We donot qualify as humans going by our acts, but we surely prove through our vulnerability and sufferings! - Ramana Pemmaraju
Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don't despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end. - Sanjo Jendayi
As he spoke, the wind whistled through the gaps in his teeth, creating an odd musical accompaniment to his words. -- unpublished as of Jan 11 2016, but surely due to appear in one of my works eventually. - Kira Stone
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him. - Ansel Adams
We all encounter things that we can't perhaps change and that's OK because surely there are many other things that we can. - Akiroq Brost
When the mind is steady, it will not create any vibrations, and therefore one will get the result. Along with that, if there is purity of chit, then one will surely be able to get his work done. - Dada Bhagwan
If you love someone so much in your life, Then they will surely hurt & destroy you from Inside..!! - shady_N
make only your trust in God; His author must surely finish his work. Hold on! - oladosu feyikogbon
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. - Bertrand Russell
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
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this. - Lewis Carroll
When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. - Ernest Hemingway
Avoid the man without compassion, because he ain’t a man surely! - Mehmet Murat ildan
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. - Sir Thomas Browne
What you choose to do in this life will surely affect you in the next... Just do good, even when it's very hard to do so. It's your life that's on the line. - R.D. Gennari
Surely you know that pleasure soon evaporates, into thin air?Then all we are left with are stories. - Hanan Al-Shaykh
The world will be brighter and wiser without religions, but it will surely be darker and more hopeless without God! - Mehmet Murat ildan
And then she'll know the things I learnedThat really have no value in the end she will surely knowI wasn't born to follow - The Byrds
Find my wrongdoings and blame it on me,Willingly I will accept the fact.I will not change as per your perspective,but will surely not hurt you,While I am being myself. - Bikash Chaurasiya
If only you can add just one great and distinctive thing to your life each day, you shall surely not just live and leave one great thing! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
What a short time I had been given to experience love. I felt as my life had only recently begun and now it would surely end at sunrise. - Meredith T. Taylor
Watch out for those who celebrate your success with bitterness in their hearts! surely, they'll hail you for what you are, and hate you for what you have become. - Michael Bassey Johnson
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness! - Pablo Picasso
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - and surely will at times -- fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. - Dr. Joyce Brothers
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words. - Dr. Joyce Brothers
We might not be equal in what we know but we are surely equal, in what we do not know. - Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya
I have never seen anyone bothering to play at putting heavy women’s makeup on a pit-bull, now, looking at this specimen of womanhood, I could surely understand why - Gary Edward Gedall
The smile upon my lips, It will surely never die As I'm waiting here for you until you're by my side. - Freida Martinez
Odd, some might think. Why someone would need to travel so far to find oneself. Surely a look in the mirror would suffice, and wouldn’t that be cheaper too? But the mirror lies, and the eyes that do the looking conspire too. - Farish A. Noor
When someone refuses listening to reason disaster will surely follow. - Ken Poirot
When you seek first to develop relationships based on personal and human ground, you will surely gain interest of another party. - Julieanne O'Conner
Sometimes it seems like "pain" is too obvious a place to turn for inspiration. Pain isn't always deep, anyway. Sometimes it's awful and that's it. Or boring. Surely other things can be as profound as pain. - Ellen Forney
Out of all the addictions in the world, Attention is slowly but surely becoming one of the most dangerous. - Saahil Prem
Some day the road that you choose will be your destiny The hope and the anxiety you grasped tightly Will surely move you and me, because it will become a light - Anonymous
Even Karma rewards generosity. The good that you do must surely catch up with you! - Chinonye J. Chidolue
Blame me not for my mistakes, for that's common, but surely do for my achievements which I'm equally unaware of. - Ramana Pemmaraju
May our eyes focus rightly on Christ ... before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most valuable if put in their proper position. - Traci LaRussa
with the pain jealousy instils and the love hate relationship it creates surely its just easier to appreciate what you have then what you could loose - Richard Kent
Our imperfections make us unique as surely as our strengths. - Toni Sorenson
Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review. - James Russell Lowell
If the pocket goes dry but the mind is fertile, awake and plant something noble in the mind and you shall surely reap something noble in the end, no matter what! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The pain of dying will surely be nothing, for the pain of love is so much stronger and agonizing. - Marilena Mexi
Confronted with such flagrant acts of intolerance—such abuses of the freedom of speech—a free society must surely do more. For intolerance is the one thing a free society cannot afford to tolerate. - Ayaan Hiri Ali
I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit. - Leon Festinger
Fear of dying must surely mean fear of how one dies. If one can be assured of a painless death, how can one fear it, unless one is a religious fanatic with a very guilty conscience? - Dimitris Mita
A faithful leader shall surely become a fruitful leadear - oladosu feyikogbon
I have never seen anyone bothering to play at putting heavy women’s markup on a pit-bull, now, looking at this specimen of womanhood, I could surely understand why. - Gary Edward Gedall
There is surely nothing other than the purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do and nothing else to pursue. We should live by being true to the purpose of each moment. - Rati Tsiteladze
If to be truthful is to be cruel, then lying must surely be an act of kindness. And so, kindness is a lie. - Hikigaya Hachiman
Surely you ain't weak.You just can't accept yourself as a strong person. - Toba Beta
The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA. - Lewis Thomas
Persecution for Christians is not a possibility, it's a promise, it's not a maybe, it's a surely! Following Jesus can mean finding the trouble you've been looking for! - Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire. - Orson Scott Card
One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime. - Amit Kalantri
Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will ­ adjust your lives, not the standards. - Ted Koppel
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. - William James
Surely, the Lord will save us in any situation. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If karma doesn't catch up, God will surely pick up the slack. - Anthony Liccione
As someone said, inthe School of Hard Knocks they give the test first, then thelesson. That is a slow, costly and surely painful way to learn.Unfortunately, it’s the only school that teaches many thingsyou need to know. - Derric Yuh Ndim
If Beyoncé Knowles and Miley Cyrus represent the latest branch of feminism, then surely the male-dominated power elite must be aroused with concern. - Mitchell Rhodes
The Lord delivers us from the seventh trouble. He shall surely deliver us from the eight one. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Slang surely, as it is called, comes of, and breathes of the personal - John Henry Newman
The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous events of the past cast their shadows down the ages, so now, when the sun is drawing toward the dark,our own shadows race into the past to trouble mankind's dreams. - Gene Wolfe
As many ideas you can generate, encourage them to form nests in your mind, for one will surely liberate you. - Auliq-Ice
Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair. - Eraldo Banovac
Surely, the Creator was with me in every circumstance. He has granted me a successful completion of my doctorate degree. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. - Anthony Trollope
Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it. - James Joyce
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. - Mahatma Gandhi
Don't," she begged, knowing that surely she was trying his patience, that his kindness would stretch just so far, that if he were truly kind he could never have survived as a vampire. - Vivian Vande Velde
I believe in winning hearts not battles , wars and world. We will surely acknowledge this in the saga of 'The Rise , fall and the rise of me ! - Balkrishn Sanmotra
Honesty is a fine foundation from which to build upon; for if one was to really know what another thinks and how they feel…they would surely treat each other differently - Jeremy Aldana
He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't...that's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that. - Matt Chandler
The end of all education should surely be service to others.
If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it. - Abraham Lincoln
A true leader leads his people from the front and if he falls into a pit the people will surely not follow. - Amit Abraham
With every mistake, we must surely be learning. - George Harrison
You will surely love the world if you enjoybeing used by people. - Vj Nadar
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