Guarantees Quotes - Page 17

• Guidance requires action, but it does not guarantee safety.

  Caroline Myss

  Safety, Doe, Action

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• I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing . . . Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?

  Utah Phillips

  Guarantees That, Want Something, White

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• A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.

  Richard Bach

  Years, Choices, Different

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• Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.

  Anthony de Jasay

  Self, Balance, Liberty

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• Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

  Walker Percy

  Obnoxious, Uneducated

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.82, Open Road Media

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• We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Eight, Black

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a gross betrayal of the civil rights principles of our historic struggle from slavery to the final guarantee of constitutional rights to all Americans. Indeed, it was practices like those of the University of Michigan, but against blacks, that were the focal point of much of the civil rights movement.

  Walter E. Williams

  Betrayal, Struggle, Rights

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• Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work.

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Attitude, Giving, Community

  "Chobani Yogurt's Success Starts Where a Giant Left Off". Interview with Diana Ransom, www.entrepreneur.com. May 25, 2012.

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• If everyone sincerely practices the path of compassion and wisdom, all their problems will be solved. I guarantee this.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Compassion, Practice, Path

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• Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

  Moliere

  Marriage, Wife, Affection

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.91, Penguin

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• All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Long, Unhappy, Searching For Happiness

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• 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.”

  Afeni Shakur

  Love, Inspirational, Children

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• We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.

  John F. Kerry

  Rights, Race, America

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• Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

  Walter Lippmann

  Government

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.7, Transaction Publishers

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• I moved to cricket at a time when I was at the peak of my career, and I can guarantee you that no one else from Bollywood would have done that.

  Preity Zinta

  Careers, Bollywood, Done

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• If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Quality, Aging, Fit

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• I still want to write Clint Eastwood a letter saying, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry for all us wimp actors. You're the truth.' I guarantee he's not the person you want to fight, even now! You look at him, and you don't want to mess with him. He would still take you down.

  Channing Tatum

  Sorry, Writing, Fighting

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• After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Air, Important, Upheaval

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• 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

  Looks, Want, Problem

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• The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.

  Rupert Holmes

  Song, Writing, Rocks

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• The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer at herself in her canals and find that she exists-incredible as it seems. It is the same reassurance that a looking-glass offers us: the guarantee that we are real.

  Mary McCarthy

  Real, Glasses, Guarantees That

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.

  Theodore White

  Christian, Democracies Have, Democracy

  Theodore H. White (1961). “The Making of the President 1960”

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• In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

  A. N. Wilson

  Education, Circles, Intellectual

  The Guardian, September 30, 1989.

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• The question to ask is whether the risk of traveling to space is worth the benefit. The answer is an unequivocal yes, but not only for the reasons that are usually touted by the space community: the need to explore, the scientific return, and the possibility of commercial profit. The most compelling reason, a very long-term one, is the necessity of using space to protect Earth and guarantee the survival of humanity.

  William E. Burrows

  Moon, Space, Compelling Reason

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• This is an important part of the Internet Dynamic - providing opportunity and not guarantees.

  Bob Frankston

  Opportunity, Important, Internet

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