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Surely Quotes (page 122)

That's the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can't be sure. But when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He doesn't just walk off the mound and weep. Raymond Chandler
The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure. Haruki Murakami
I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather -- that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times. ~ Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
Samuel Richardson quote: "for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad..."
...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.--To be sure she must be an atheist! Samuel Richardson
Charles M. Schulz quote: "What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it?..."
What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time! Charles M. Schulz
I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day. Ernest Hemingway
The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not. Christopher Hitchens
I dont want to own anything until I know I have found the place where me and things belong together. Im not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what its like. Truman Capote
Richard Powers quote: "When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder."
When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder. Richard Powers
For all of them told happenings like narrations, chronological and careful, as if the ear of the world listened and wished to know surely. Eudora Welty
Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies. Jose Saramago
The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail. Louis L'Amour
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own. John F. Kennedy
He supposed that the intent of the Gospels was to teach people, among other things, to be merciful, even to the lowest of the low. But the Gospels actually taught this: Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes. Kurt Vonnegut
I'm sure the Bursar would not agree with those figures," said the Senior Wrangler sourly."That is so,' said Ponder, "but I'm afraid that is because he regards the decimal point as a nuisance. Terry Prachett

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