Surmise Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not. — William Hague

The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine. — Amity Shlaes

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running. — Christopher McDougall

One last word,' I said in my horrible careful English, 'are you quite, quite sure that - well, not tomorrow, of course, and not after tomorrow, but - well - some day, any day, you will not come to live with me? I will create a brand new God and thank him with piercing cries, if you give me that microscopic hope'
'No,' she said smiling, 'no.'
'It would have made all the difference,' said Humbert Humbert.
Then I pulled out my automatic-I mean, this is the kind of fool thing a reader might suppose I did. It never even occurred to me to do it. — Vladimir Nabokov

A cold dismay creeps over me. Oh okay, maybe I did once kind of pretend I had a stalker. Which I shouldn't have done. But I mean, just because you invent one tiny stalker - that doesn't make you a complete nut case, does it? — Sophie Kinsella

We are not to mimic witches spicing their caldrons with a little eye of newt and tail of squirrel when we add Jesus' name to our prayers. — Bryan Chapell

[M]editation is not just being silent - that is only one part of it ... [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes out of your inner silences, or a painting, it has a flavor which is not of this world. — Rajneesh

The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine. — Lewis Mumford

I maintain, then, that we should make peace, not only with the Chians, the Rhodians, the Byzantines and the Coans, but with all mankind ... — Isocrates

Don't get me wrong, she was an attractive girl, but the last thing she needed was to get mixed up with me. — S.A. Tawks

It's a powerful feeling to know you make others feel safe — Neal Shusterman

Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage. — Radhanath Swami

Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious. — P.G. Wodehouse

It is a good proof and test of our love if we can bear with such faults and not be shocked by them. Others, in their turn, will bear with your faults, which, if you include those of which you are not aware, must be much more numerous. — Teresa Of Avila