Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
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.
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
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.
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.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.
I will surely pen my autobiography.
In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.
The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
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 poetry.
As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.
The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collateral damage may be heartbreaking. Mrs. Thatcher's strident, take-no prisoners approach was in some ways repugnant, but it was surely necessary.
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
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.
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.
Well, Mr. Speaker, if so many of these Iraqis are ready to come up and to provide the security, the police work in the country, then surely there should be no problem with putting American forces into the background instead of having them up front.
The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.
There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.
If self-absorption, vague yearnings, and a nagging sense of incompleteness are sins, then surely I will burn for all eternity, and I will save you a seat.
Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.