Guarantees Quotes - Page 5

• To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

  Leonard Cohen

  Dream, Land, People

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.27, McClelland & Stewart

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• Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never be happy. Happiness doesn't come from living a lukewarm life, always wondering what could have been. Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up to our fullest potential.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Two, Goal

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 25, 2013

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• Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

  William J. Clinton

  Failure, Trying, Pessimism

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• The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

  John Updike

  Reality, Self, Guarantees That

  John Updike (1989). “Self-consciousness: memoirs”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordion-like quality.

  William O. Douglas

  Compelling Reason, Race, Quality

  "DeFunis v. Odegaard, 416 U.S. 312". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 23, 1974.

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• The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.

  Paulo Coelho

  God, Wise, Spiritual

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• If we could only live the way we know deep down we should, we would guarantee ourselves a life of richness & fulfillment.

  Richard Carlson

  Way, Should, Fulfillment

  Richard Carlson, Kristine Carlson (2007). “An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given”, Hyperion

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• The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained.

  Ayn Rand

  Support, Political, Minorities

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.190, Penguin

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• Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back, but you will find good use for your technical abilities on the voyage. Reply at once.' Next day the following telegram arrived from Torstein: COMING. TORSTEIN.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Next Day, Islands, Sea

  Thor Heyerdahl (1990). “Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Men, Hair

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.436, Faber & Faber

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• Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.

  James Madison

  Love, Loyalty, Country

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• In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Fate, Thinking

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Courage, Freedom, Opportunity

  Noam Chomsky, Heinz Dieterich (1999). “Latin America: from colonization to globalization”, Ocean Pr

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• The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Positive, Philosophical, Compassion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive

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• Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Persistence, Guarantees That, Results

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• If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.

  Noam Chomsky

  Disappointment, Hard Work, Law

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• The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise.

  Brennan Manning

  Reality, Decision, Promise

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• There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be.

  Brent Weeks

  Sacrifice, Winning, Guarantees That

  Brent Weeks (2009). “Beyond The Shadows: Book 3 of the Night Angel”, Hachette UK

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• Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person. . . . But it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.

  Daniel Handler

  Mean, Vocabulary, Guarantees That

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• I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

  Tupac Shakur

  Life, Music, Science

  "Tupac: Resurrection". Documentary, January 22, 2003.

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• She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Disappointment, Loneliness, Book

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Oct 27, 2014

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• The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said, "Challenge her. There's no guarantee she'll play fair, but her kind of thing loves games and challenges.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sarcastic, Cat, Games

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.76, A&C Black

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• Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Neglect, Substitutes, Ifs

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1955). “Gift from the Sea”

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• She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Boat, Conviction, Sail

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.159, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK.

  Katie Couric

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

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