Guarantees Quotes - Page 40

• My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

  Joel Osteen

  Christian, Giving, Heaven

  "Osteens: Obama doing great job, loves the Lord". "Larry King Live" with Larry King, www.cnn.com. April 8, 2009.

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• The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity.

  Lucas Papademos

  Country, Financial, Prosperity

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• President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.

  Bev Perdue

  Country, Fighting, Equal Pay

  "Gov. Bev Perdue DNC 2012 speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reading, Writing, Guarantees That

  "The great unknown". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.

  Samantha Power

  Mean, Iran, Relation

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• A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.

  Harold Prince

  Running, Stars, May

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• And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.

  Mitt Romney

  Class, America, Honor

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.

  Salman Rushdie

  India And Pakistan, Kashmir, Borders

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• I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Hard Work, Thinking, Doctors

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• As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Play, Competition, Stronger

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• Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.

  Lysander Spooner

  Passion, Men, Justice

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

  James Surowiecki

  Car, Driving, Computer

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• Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

  Scott Turow

  Guarantees That, Democracy, Pillars

  "Let-Them-Eat-Cake-Attitude Threatens to Destroy a Network of Public Assets" by Scott Turow, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.

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• Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

  Murray Walker

  Gone, Bad Grades, Profit

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• I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Moving, Thinking, Games

  "Q&A: Inside the Mind of the World's Top Chess Player". Interview with Aditi Malhotra, blogs.wsj.com. April 3, 2013.

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• If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.

  Tucker Max

  Jobs, Three, Levels

  "Don’t Look for Talent; Find People Who Do Things" by Tucker Max, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2013.

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• I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

  Madeleine Albright

  Success, Way, Taught

  "Madam Secretary". Book by Madeleine Albright, 2003.

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• The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Guarantees That, Atheism

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• Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.

  P. C. Cast

  Book, Happy Endings

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• I don't need a guarantee if I have you.

  P. C. Cast

  Needs, Ifs, Heath Luck

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.106, Macmillan

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• 'Dear Mr. Argeneau,'" she began. " 'I haven't read Love Bites, One, but I will, I guarantee it. I just finished Love Bites, Two, and thought it was wonderful. Etienne was so sweet and funny and sexy that I fell in love with him even as Rachel did. He's my dream man.'" Kate paused and glanced up expectantly. "What would you say to those letters?" That was easy enough. "Etienne is taken." -Kate and Lucern

  Lynsay Sands

  Sexy, Dream, Sweet

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• You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does

  Sri Chinmoy

  Greatness, Doe, Never Forget

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• To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that. Then she wondered if it were vain and stupid to think so well of herself. When had it even been a guarantee to be valuable? Wasn't all history full of the destruction of precious things? Wasn't it much more probable that if one were fine one would suffer?

  Henry James

  Stupid, Thinking, Suffering

  Henry James (2013). “The Essential Henry James Collection”, p.921, eBookIt.com

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• Do you think that's, like, REAL bacon?" I whispered to Sydney and Dimitri. "And not like squirrel or something?" "Looks real to me," said Dimitri. "I'd say so too", said Sydney "Though, I guarantee it's from their own pigs and not a grocery store." Dimitri laughed at whatever expression crossed my face. "I always love seeing what worries you. Strigoi? No. Questionable food? Yes.

  Richelle Mead

  Real, Thinking, Squirrels

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Vampire Academy: Last Sacrifice”, p.120, Penguin UK

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• The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions that Will Help You See It and Seize It”, p.169, Thomas Nelson Inc

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