Guarantees famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If God's Word is not absolutely and completely true, it is too weak a cable to fix our anchorage and guarantee our eternal peace.
-- A. B. Simpson -
The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
-- Aaron Levie -
I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.â€
-- Afeni Shakur -
Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.
-- Ahmet Necdet Sezer -
Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to sell the film. If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less!
-- Ajay Devgan -
We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
-- Alan Greenspan -
There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
-- Alan Greenspan -
If we guarantee employment for some, we jeopardize employment for everyone.
-- Albert J. Dunlap -
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?
-- Alexander Lukashenko -
The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.
-- Alveda King -
In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)
-- Alvin Plantinga -
I can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it - but I can never be on the inside of it with you. I cannot even be sure whether I really know what it is like. Is it 'like' my own? Or incomparable? Just as I can never know if what you see at any given moment is exactly the same as what I see. We look at a colour. We both call it red. But it is only because we have been taught to call it by that name. There is no guarantee - not ever - that we see it in the same way, that your red is my red.
-- André Brink -
The fact that maybe I had some success playing G'Kar doesn't guarantee me three years later that I can still do it, so I have to keep my senses alive and still be working on it.
-- Andreas Katsulas -
We learned not to meet anymore, We don't raise our eyes to one another, But we ourselves won't guarantee What could happen to us in an hour.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
You can guarantee that mining uranium will lead to nuclear waste. You can't guarantee that uranium mining will not lead to nuclear weapons.
-- Anthony Albanese -
Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future
-- Aristotle -
The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.
-- Arthur Goldberg -
universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
[I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens and strict maintenance of public faith with the creditors of the state [and] a fresh guarantee of peace by an alliance with France and...Belgium for the defence of our common interests against unprovoked attack.
-- Austen Chamberlain -
The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
Life Insurance is the only tool that takes pennies and guarantees dollars.
-- Ben Feldman -
The U.S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.
-- Bernard Crick -
The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody.
-- Bertie Ahern -
The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.
-- Bhumibol Adulyadej -
If [a student's] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have much of a planet on which to make use of their degree.
-- Bill McKibben -
This is an important part of the Internet Dynamic - providing opportunity and not guarantees.
-- Bob Frankston -
Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?
-- Bob McDonnell -
If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.
-- Bob Parsons -
There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.
-- Bob Schaffer -
This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too.
-- Bobby Knight -
Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness
-- Brian Tracy -
The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.
-- Brian Tracy -
The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.
-- Carrie Chapman Catt -
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
-- Charles Dickens -
The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.
-- Chris Farley -
No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.
-- Clifton Anderson -
We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.
-- Clifton Fadiman -
Every American may have equal access to ice cream, but there's no guarantee that the outcome of eating ice cream will be equal.
-- Dan Savage -
But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.
-- Dave Heineman -
We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.
-- David Dinkins -
...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.
-- David Foster Wallace -
Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school.
-- David Henry Hwang -
The promises of God are His guarantees amid life's uncertainties. They're the basis of all our life of faith.
-- David Jeremiah -
I never have people tell me their stories. I usually have to figure them out myself. Because I know that if people tell me stories, they will expect them to be remembered. And I cannot guarantee that. There is no way to know if the stories stay after I'm gone. And how devastating would it be to confide in someone and have the confidence disappear? I don't want to be responsible for that.
-- David Levithan -
Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success.
-- David Lloyd-Jones -
If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.
-- David O. Selznick -
Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.
-- David Rakoff -
If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission.
-- Deborah Feldman -
The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.
-- Demi Moore -
Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing
-- Dennis Prager -
Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.
-- Dirk Benedict -
It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again. Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be. Somewhere, just as the platinum iridium meter guarantees the tape measure, a strict measure must exist for the art of this time and place.
-- Donald Judd -
If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker -
Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'
-- Edith Head -
The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.
-- Edward Bellamy -
In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse.
-- Edward Bernays -
Storehouses filled with merchandise will prove a better guarantee than arsenals bulging with ammunition.
-- Elisabeth Marbury -
To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.
-- Elizabeth Loftus -
The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.
-- Elton Gallegly -
There's no money back guarantee on future happiness.
-- Elvis Costello -
The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.
-- Eric Holder -
Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.
-- Eric Jerome Dickey -
A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote or guarantee reproductive isolation when the external barriers break down.
-- Ernst Mayr -
Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for.
-- Erwin McManus -
To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.
-- Evan Parker -
Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.
-- Felix Frankfurter -
It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.
-- Ford Madox Ford -
Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.
-- Frank Chodorov -
This is my world. You step into my world, you will step out a loser - I guarantee it.
-- Frank Shamrock -
Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.
-- Franz Marc -
Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.
-- Fred Armisen -
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety.
-- Frederic Bastiat -
Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.
-- Garth Brooks -
Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.
-- Gene Spafford -
A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.
-- George Brett -
If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.
-- George Nethercutt -
If everyone sincerely practices the path of compassion and wisdom, all their problems will be solved. I guarantee this.
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso -
The Constitution of America only guarantees pursuit of happiness-you have to catch up with it yourself. Fortunately, happiness is something that depends not on position but on disposition, and life is what you make it.
-- Gill Robb Wilson -
Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
-- Golda Meir -
Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.
-- Gustave de Molinari -
Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
-- Guy Finley -
If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
-- Hal Sparks -
You will find yourself in the Quran, I guarantee you.
-- Hamza Yusuf -
A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
-- Harold Prince -
Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.
-- Hedy Lamarr -
We must . . . guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.
-- Henry W. Kendall -
There's no such thing as an "absolute guarantee" in this world.
-- Hidetaka Suehiro -
Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?
-- Hildegard Knef -
We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.
-- Howard Rheingold -
Here's what happens when you die--you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.
-- Howard Stern -
I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented.
-- Huey Lewis
