Guarantees That Quotes - Page 5

• suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious crime of all.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Suicide, Successful, Serious

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• There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Years, United States, Guarantees

  "Q&A: Buzz Aldrin on 'In the Shadow of the Moon'". Interview with Shawn Adler, www.mtv.com. June 09, 2007.

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• Gun-free zones don't deter criminals-they help them by providing a guarantee that they will not face any armed resistance. But they do deter the law-abiding. A faculty member with a concealed-handgun permit who breaks the campus gun ban would be fired and likely find it impossible to get admitted to another school. Bringing a firearm into a gun-free zone can have serious adverse consequences for law-abiding people. But for someone like the Virginia Tech killer, the threat of expulsion is no deterrent at all.

  Glenn Beck

  School, Gun, Virginia

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Hannah Beck (2013). “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.

  Joy Fielding

  Giving Up, Trying, Reaching

  Joy Fielding (2012). “Still Life: Caught in a nightmare between life and death ...”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• I can only be as good as [the audience members] at acknowledging and owning the information that's coming through ... and sometimes, nobody comes through.... One of the things that I've learned is that I am not an operator and I can't dial direct, ... and even if I do make the connection with the person they want to hear from, there's no guarantee that they're going to come through and tell them what they want to hear.

  John Edward

  Scary, Connections, Want

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• Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in one person.

  Susan Orlean

  Two, Talent, Designer

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Women, Males, Transition

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• Commitment is making a choice to follow through or to honor. Engagement and guarantee - we all love guarantees in life. Making a commitment, whether it's for something like climate change or to my family, or even to my fans - what that means to me is, whether on paper or verbally or spiritually, making a promise to guarantee that I will fulfill whatever agreement we have.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Mean, Commitment, Guarantees In Life

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• There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Having a family guarantees that you have a built in support system, and although that support system may not always be what you want it to be, when it comes down to the wire, your family will love you and stand behind you, no matter what.

  Winston Churchill

  Love You, Home, Support Systems

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• One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government. What is the politicians' answer? To have more costs paid by insurance companies and the government. ... [H]aving someone else pay for medical care virtually guarantees that a lot more of it will be used. Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Care, Pay

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• I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Years, Dollars

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• When you sign with a major label there is no guarantee that they are going to release it either unless you have a guarantee clause or a marketing clause.

  Michael Sweet

  Marketing, Labels, Release

  "Interview with Stryper frontman Michael Sweet". Interview with Bruce Moore, puregrainaudio.com. August 8, 2005.

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• As much as there is joy in writing, there's always the little bit of terror to keep you on edge, on your toes. It is a strange way to occupy yourself - to enjoy your life on a daily basis. There is no guarantee that something great is going to come next.

  Robert Cormier

  Writing, Occupy Yourself, Joy

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think one of the things about parents and children is there are the accidents of temperament. There's no guarantee that just because you are related you'll have anything in common.

  Aline Brosh McKenna

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One way of looking at Impossibility Theorem is that we proposed some criteria for what a good system should be: what is it you want from a voting system, and impose some conditions. And then ask: can you have a voting system that guarantees that?

  Kenneth Arrow

  Voting, Want, Way

  Source: electology.org

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• There is no such thing as equality, other than of opportunity and before the law. But there is no equality of what's gonna happen to you when you engage or pursue your opportunity, and there's no guarantee that's what's gonna happen to you once you have your equality before the law. There is no equality of outcome.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Opportunity, Law, Outcomes

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I have been arrested time and time again, and my colleagues, too. I cannot guarantee that I'll not be arrested again. But it's not something that weighs on my mind. I'll do what I can while I'm free. If they arrest me again, I'll do what I can while I'm under arrest.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Mind, Colleagues, Arrested

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who seemed to think I could write something worth publishing was my loyal husband. But I always remembered the professor from graduate school who urged me to write and who recommended me for that first writing assignment in 1964. When I protested to Sara Little that I didn't want to add another mediocre writer to the world, she gently reminded me that if I didn't dare mediocrity, I would never write anything at all.

  Katherine Paterson

  Husband, Writing, School

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Being a parent is a life sentence. You see, that's why normal people should not have children because if you raise a kid with only love and support, I guarantee that kid will be in rehab by the time he is 16. Why? Because you never introduced him to Mr. Back-of-Your-Hand. You know why I only broke into a liquor store once? 'Cause my father introduced me to Mr. Back-of-His-Hand and its wiley sidekick, Mr. Foot-in-My-Ass.

  Christopher Titus

  Children, Father, Kids

  "Titus / The Visit". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• If you've got no responsibility and don't have to generate a certain amount of cash each month, and can live on a shoestring, and are ambitious enough, then you might have a chance. You can be dedicated but that is no guarantee that you'll make it. I rely on a hunch, a little luck, and some cunning.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Responsibility, Luck, Ambitious

  Sean Callahan, Elliott Erwitt (1974). “The private experience, Elliott Erwitt”

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• Anyone who marries gets no guarantee that their partner, no matter what they vow, will always keep that promise.

  Emily Yoffe

  Promise, Matter, Vow

  "Outnumbered" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. October 12, 2015.

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• I'd like to point out that I don't think that there is anything fundamentally superior in the GPL as compared to the BSD license, for example. But the GPL is what I want to program with, because unlike the BSD license it guarantees that anybody who works on the project in the future will also contribute their changes back to the community.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Community, Example

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• Publications by the World Health Organization show that diphtheria is steadily declining in most European countries, including those in which there has been no immunization. The decline began long before vaccination was developed. There is certainly no guarantee that vaccination will protect a child against the disease; in fact, over 30,000 cases of diphtheria have been recorded in the United Kingdom in fully immunized children.

  Leon Chaitow

  Country, Children, Organization

  Leon Chaitow (2011). “Vaccination And Immunisation: Dangers, Delusions and Alternatives (What Every Parent Should Know)”, p.71, Random House

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• While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.

  John F. Kennedy

  Effort, One Day, Lasts

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• We're fighting a war on terror because the enemy attacked us first, and hit us hard. ... Al Qaeda's leadership has said they have the right to kill four million Americans,... For nearly six years now, the United States has been able to defeat their attempts to attack us here at home. Nobody can guarantee that we won't be hit again.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Home, Fighting

  Vice President's Remarks at the United States Military Academy Commencement, West Point, New York, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 26, 2007.

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