Surmising Defined Quotes & Sayings

We lost our country somewhere along the way. We know where we lost it but we do not appear to have the strength to eliminate those blocking our view to enable us to develop our common identity. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself. — Madeleine Thien

What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world? — Cornelia Funke

It was in the darkest of my days when you took my sorrow and you took my pain — Brandi Carlile

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it. — Neil Gaiman

People may be persuaded that the machine is doing good. In fact, good is only capable of being done on a small scale. Evil is more versatile. You can hate those you have never seen, all the vast multitudes of them, but you can only love those you know - and that with difficulty. — John Christopher