Assured Quotes - Page 5

• I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Kabbalah, Hitting, Belief

  "Crystal clear" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  Tacitus

  Best Friend, Worst Enemy, History

  8 Copy quote

• If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

  Stendhal

  Men, Thinking, Ruins

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.50, World Classic

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.

  Will Self

  Fall, Style, Fiction

  "Incidents along the road" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2009.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.

  Carre Otis

  Stupid, Parent, Dyslexia

  Carre Otis, Hugo Schwyzer (2011). “Beauty, Disrupted: The Carre Otis Story”, p.9, Harper Collins

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

  Suze Orman

  Maturity, Fans, Assuming

  7 Copy quote

• It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.

  Susan Orlean

  Self, Imagine, Hard

  "Thomas Kinkade: Death of a Kitsch Master" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 8, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that there were only black cat chaped holes in the universe.

  Arundhati Roy

  Cat, Black, World

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.82, Penguin Books India

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison.

  e. e. cummings

  Way, Prison

  E.E. Cummings (2015). “The Enormous Room”, Xist Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Loyal And Faithful, Faithful, Loyal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Thinking, Laughing

  Jane Austen (1864). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.17

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Eye, Self, Disbelievers

  55 Copy quote

• We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

  Stephen Leacock

  Thinking, Laughing, Forgiving

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “My Discovery of England”, p.107, The Floating Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Running, Splits, Ends

  "Interview with the Web’s Creator". Interview With Chris Oakes, www.wired.com. October 23, 1999.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Destruction, Accepting, Interest

  4 Copy quote

• Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

  Franz Liszt

  Art, Path, Recognition

  28 Copy quote

• I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that "except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fall, Believe, Writing

  Constitutional Convention Address on Prayer, delivered Thursday, June 28, 1787, Philadelphia, PA

  122 Copy quote

  Show source

• I blush to think of her beholding my work," Verl confessed. So do we," Newel assured him.

  Brandon Mull

  Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• You should be thankful that dark colors suit you. Not everyone wears black well." "Why, Lady Olivia, is that a compliment?" "Not so much as a compliment to you as an insult to everyone else," she assured him. "Thanks heaven for that. I don't think I would know how to conduct myself in a world in which you offered compliments.

  Julia Quinn

  Dark, Thinking, Color

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Feb 26, 2015

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

  Fred Rogers

  Inspirational, Stress, Heart

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.94, Penguin

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram —impersonal and unattainable—the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Philosophy, Passion, School

  Evelyn Underhill (2012). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.38, Courier Corporation

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize, France: 'Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.' It is still difficult for me to read these words without tears filling my eyes. It is wonderful.

  Brennan Manning

  Brother, Jesus, Eye

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.94, Multnomah

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Acceptance, Unique

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.101, Multnomah

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Will you be?” I asked, suddenly anxious. “Will you really be here?” “As long as you want me,” he assured me. “I'll always want you,” I warned him. “Forever.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Long, Forever, Want

  4 Copy quote

• I'll fall.' 'You wont fall.' 'I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.' As I said it, I could see it happening. The foot stepping on air, pulling the rest of my body with it, tree limbs breaking as I plummeted down. 'No,' he said, his voice assured, 'You'd never do that to me.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Fall, Air, Voice

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.31, A&C Black

  9 Copy quote

  Show source