Guarantees Quotes - Page 38

• What do you do when other countries' intelligence agencies give you information and you aren't entirely certain about its source? Simply ignore it? That's impossible. We have a duty to guarantee the safety of our citizens.

  Angela Merkel

  Country, Agency, Safety

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The only way one can guarantee one's loyalty is love. Loyalty is beyond logic, really.

  Paul Bettany

  Loyalty, Way, Logic

  Source: collider.com

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• If you live real good, I can guarantee you are gonna get beat up real bad!

  Rich Mullins

  Real, Beats, Ifs

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• Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires - a wiretap requires a court order. [...] Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. [...]

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Government, Order

  "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Holds a Hearing on Wartime Executive Power and the National Security Agency's Surveillance Authority". www.washingtonpost.com. February 6, 2006.

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• I noticed a long time ago that the Universe rewards belief systems. It doesn't really matter what you believe - it'll be there and waiting for you if you go and look for it. Decide the universe is, say, run by secret enormous teddy bears, and I can guarantee you'll immediately start running across evidence that this is true.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Believe, Long

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• I will only vote to confirm a nominee for attorney general who is truly independent and who will guarantee reforms that restore and uphold the Constitution.

  Christopher Dodd

  Independent, Reform, Constitution

  "Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' Resignation Prompts Strong Reaction", www.foxnews.com. August 27, 2007.

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• Books proliferate, and occasionally sell in very large numbers, which claim to have found the rule, or small set of rules, which will guarantee business success. But business is far too complicated, far too difficult an activity to distil into a few simple commands ... It is failure rather than success which is the distinguishing feature of corporate life.

  Paul Ormerod

  Book, Simple, Numbers

  Paul Ormerod (2010). “Why Most Things Fail”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• It is the duty of the government to guarantee maximum security, and this is not an easy task.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Government, Tasks, Easy

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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

  Guarantees That, Effort, One Day

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

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• I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!

  Bikram Choudhury

  Sports, Yoga, Drug

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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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• We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Ignorance, Errors, World

  "Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Post-war American National Security Policy". Book by John Lewis Gaddis, 1982.

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• I wanna end the international embarrassment of the United States of America being the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, America, People

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

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• No one's too big for a compliment. A lot of times, people think with celebrities, 'Oh, she knows she's great in that!' Meryl Streep still likes a compliment. I guarantee you, it touches her heart.

  Nikki Glaser

  Heart, Thinking, People

  "The Ladies Of Nikki & Sara Live Dish On Confidence & Awkward, Uhh, Pauses". Interview with Carlye Wisel, www.refinery29.com. February 1, 2013.

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• One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.

  Bill Nighy

  Kindness, Regret, Compassion

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• We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Yield, Government, People

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.76, Best Books on

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• I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly or indirectly. Trust me. It will happen. You might think you know yourself better than anyone, but you have yet to become acquainted with your addiction. It will introduce itself in ways that you never thought were possible.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Thinking, Guarantees That, Addiction

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• Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.

  Steve McConnell

  Fun, Heuristics, Algorithms

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.12, Pearson Education

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• I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances.

  Nayef Al-Rodhan

  Quality, Dignity, Progressive

  "Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man: A Philosophy of History and Civilisational Triumph". Book by Nayef Al-Rodhan, 2009.

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• No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is to put out the fire, even though this extinguishment provides no guarantee that the house will never catch fire again.

  Robert Higgs

  Fire, Guarantees That, House

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• Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'

  Peter Kreeft

  Home, Giving, Heaven

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.17, Ignatius Press

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• What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Our Generation, People

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 7 : Economic Control and Totalitarianism, 1940 - 1943.

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• That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

  John Buchan

  History, Study, Supreme

  John Buchan (2016). “THE THREE HOSTAGES (Mystery & Adventure Classic): An International Children’s Kidnapping Racket With A Race against Time (Including Memoirs & Biography of the Author)”, p.390, e-artnow

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• I have seen business moguls achieve their ultimate goals but still live in frustration, worry, and fear. What's preventing these successful people for being happy? The answer is they have focused only on achievement and not fulfillment. Extraordinary accomplishment does not guarantee extraordinary joy, happiness, love, and a sense of meaning. These two skill sets feed off each other, and make me believe that success without fulfillment is failure.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Successful, Frustration

  "Tony Robbins: Unleashing the Power". Success Interview, www.success.com. December 1, 2008.

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• Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Art, Play, Numbers

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building A Character”, p.272, Routledge

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