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The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.

- Claire Forlani

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one`s earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

- Ashley Montagu

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.

- George W. Bush

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.

- George W. Bush

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

- Dick Wolf

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

- Gustav Mahler

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

- Robert A. Heinlein

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

- Robert Benchley

Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won`t win is to assume that you will.

- Brad Bird

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

- Socrates
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One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

- Pauline Kael

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

- Bill Watterson

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

- Aislinn Ryan

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

- AJ Pierzynski

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

- Al Eckert

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

- Alan Kral

The surest way to hit a woman`s heart is to take aim kneeling.

- Alastair Clarkson

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

- Albert Lin

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

- Alex Albany

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

- Alex Garwood

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

- Amanda Morris

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

- Andrea Ruedi

Perhaps the surest test of an individual`s integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

- Andrew DiPasquale

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

- Andy Coen

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

- Anne Cahill

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

- Avery Neumark

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it

- George Washington

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

- Dale Carnegie

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

- Mark Twain

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

- Socrates
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A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism

- Donald Morgan

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

- Dale Carnegie

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently

- Friedrich Nietzsche

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness

- Thomas Wolfe

I would say that the surest measure of a man`s or a woman`s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse

- Benjamin Spock

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

- Georges Pompidou

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction

- Marya Mannes

Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.

- Robert J. McCracken