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• The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Okay

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jan 10, 2012

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• There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

  Alberto Manguel

  Lines, Fables, Justified

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.30, Vintage Canada

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• We assured Phelan that we were more than happy to let him have you and your menagerie,” Leo retorted. “After that, he said he needed to think.” “About what?” Beatrix demanded. “What is there to think about? Why is it taking him so long to make a decision?” “He’s a man, dear,” Amelia explained kindly. “Sustained thinking is very difficult for them.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.214, Macmillan

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• Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Use, Doers

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedy of King Richard III”, p.192, Oxford University Press, USA

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• This, then, is my choice: I can allow the events of my life to happen to me. Or I can take those very same actions and make them my own. I can live in my own present, risk failure, be assured of failure.

  Charles Yu

  Choices, Risk, Events

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel”, p.212, Knopf

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• When you trust in the Lord, when you are willing to let your heart and your mind be centered in His will, when you ask to be led by the Spirit to do His will, you are assured of the greatest happiness along the way and the most fulfilling attainment from this mortal experience. If you question everything you are asked to do, or dig in your heels at every unpleasant challenge, you make it harder for the Lord to bless you.

  Richard G. Scott

  Heart, Challenges, Mind

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• You were spying on us?" "It was kind of hard not to. You were right there by the workshop with Will. it looked like he was practically squishing you to death." "He wasn't," Ronnie assured him. "I'm just saying how it looked." She smiled. You'll understand when you're a little older.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Littles, Kind, Just Saying

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.151, Hachette UK

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• The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it

  David Eddings

  Beautiful, Looks, World

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• I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the outset that if Roderick Spode had a sunnier side, he had not come with any idea of exhibiting it now. His manner was curt. One sensed the absence of the bonhomous note. ... Here he laid a hand on my shoulder, and I can't remember when I have experienced anything more unpleasant. Apart from what Jeeves would have called the symbolism of the action, he had a grip like the bite of a horse. "Did you say 'Oh yes?'" he asked. "Oh no," I assured him.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Horse, Boys, Hands

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• Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, that is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Home, America, Purpose

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.57, Thomas Wolfe

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• And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

  John Steinbeck

  Women, Equality, Circus

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.26, Penguin

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• Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

  Carl Jung

  Astrology, Psychology, Recognition

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• The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and led a clean decent and upstanding life could be assured of a future life after death. If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper.

  Terry Pratchett

  Tree, Paper, Clean

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• I'm mortal. You really don't want me falling down stairs and breaking my neck." "I'd catch you," he assured her solemnly. "I'll always be there to catch you, Inez.

  Lynsay Sands

  Fall, Want, Necks

  Lynsay Sands (2012). “Vampires are Forever: An Argeneau Vampire Novel”, p.155, Hachette UK

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• Mutually assured destruction.

  Holly Black

  Destruction, Mutually Assured Destruction

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.

  Pam Brown

  Cat, Self, Secret

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• Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Soul, Cheerful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.42, Coyote Canyon Press

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• When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Suicide, Rights, Easy

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.333, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

  Mortimer Adler

  Truth, Heart, May

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• Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Lying, Small Acts, Events

  Elisabeth Elliot (2002). “Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity”, p.145, Revell

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• Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Greed, Three

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.88, Vintage

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• Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we never would look at the marked-off zones, that they would be nonexistent territories in the apartment in which one could temporarily cease to exist.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Writing, Grandfather, Would Be

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• We can do subtle," I assured her. "It's our middle name," Andrea added. For some odd reason Rene didn't look convinced.

  Ilona Andrews

  Names, Looks, Odd

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.44, Penguin

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• But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time.

  Meg Cabot

  Embarrassment, Remembered, Whole

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Princess Diaries: Ten Out of Ten”, p.116, Pan Macmillan

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• She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.

  E. M. Forster

  Sight, Criminals, Firsts

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