For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

I would be upset if I was on the 'worst dressed'. It would make me think, 'Surely I haven't done anything that horrific - have I?'

If we seek things that are virtuous and lovely, we surely will find them. Conversely, if we seek for evil, we will find that also.

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

Back To Dad' gives a message that every youngster should learn and this is surely going to leave a very strong impact on the masses.

If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?

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.

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good.

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

Surely the wake left behind by mankind's forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

Bizarrely, I've been called selfish for not having children. Surely it's more selfish to have a child when you don't really want a child?

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

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.

The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.

For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

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.

Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

If we can spend over $3 trillion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, surely we can find the money to meet the long-term needs of our people.

People say, 'Surely there's the right reasons for going to war?' And my perspective is, 'Surely there's a better way of asking that question?'

Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

At the age of ten, I thought if a boy kissed you on the lips, you would have a baby, and I surely wasn't the only youngster who believed that!

If we're going to forecast the business cycle, surely it is a good idea to know the business cycle. Sounds reasonable, but it's not that easy.

Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.

Our country is slowly but surely moving - and I've seen it over and over again in many instances in government - toward a culture of mediocrity.

Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.

My parents broke many rules, so I guess thinking 'outside the box' has been slowly but surely developing in my family - one generation to the next.

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

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.

Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

Myself and The Beatles thought surely there was a way through our fame and success to bring something to our generation to help chill the future out.

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.

If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?

If people learned what they were contributing to every time they ate meat, eggs, or dairy, surely they would be just as motivated as I was to change.

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

Surely in a country that works for everyone ensuring that everyone has access to an excellent education should be the first priority of any government?

Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

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