Assurances Quotes

#1. When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.

Charles Fort

#2. I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.

Dana Stabenow

#3. Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

George Santayana

#4. Boris [Johnson] was cavalier with assurances he made. We're picking a prime minister here to lead the country, not a school prefect.

Dominic Raab

#5. The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.

Christina Stead

#6. We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

Mario Puzo

#7. While religious assurances such as 'God loves you' could comfort us, we ultimately had to understand why we are loveable

Jeremy Griffith

#8. [...] something that was called an agreement is not necessarily always that. On the contrary, one party might advance their self-interest under the guise of a common decision, and in the long run it often becomes clear that someone is suffering, despite assurances to the contrary.

David Lagercrantz

#9. Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

George Eliot

#10. Men wanted certainties, not more causes for doubt, and since the discoveries of science perplexed them with strange theories about the earth on which they walked and the bodies they inhabited, they turned with all the more zeal to the firm assurances of religion. Never

C. V. Wedgewood

#11. We expect the Taiwan authorities publicly to correct the record and unambiguously affirm that the February 27 announcement did not abolish the National Unification Council, did not change the status quo, and that the assurances remain in effect.

Joseph Adam Ereli

#12. But anyone who only expects thinking to give assurances, and awaits the day when we can go beyond it as unnecessary, is demanding that thought annihilate itself.

Martin Heidegger

#13. And just like a dream, there were no assurances behind it. It didn't grow on its own. It didn't blossom without food to feed it. It was the greatest in its subtleties. It was the strongest in its selflessness.

Mariana Zapata

#14. Europe was set free largely thanks to the Protestant reformation that began to teach that believers don't have any assurances to salvation through the back doors.

Sunday Adelaja

#15. He was breathing heavy, but speaking assurances, words of encouragement delivered in short sentences. "Hang in there now. It'll be okay. We're almost there. Almost there.

Victoria Danann

#16. For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.

H.L. Mencken

#17. love was a dream. And just like a dream, there were no assurances behind it. It didn't grow on its own. It didn't blossom without food to feed it. It

Mariana Zapata

#18. That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.

Isaac Barrow

#19. But you don't know how to read anymore! When you open a book, you do it in the faith and assurances that you are already master of what it contains and that the author has written only so you may prove him wrong!

Philip Wylie

#20. I cannot give any assurances. I'm not in that business. I haven't been, and I don't intend to get into it. People who try to make predictions about things or assurances often find they're wrong.

Donald Rumsfeld

#21. The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves were present, because for so long our existence depended upon assurances from them.

Doris Grumbach

#22. At least one thing is certain: Chris and I are inextricably connected. Do I have factual reasons to know this? Proof? Assurances? No None.
Some people believe in God; I believe in Chris.

Jessica Park

#23. A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great.

Peter Schjeldahl

#24. Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

Walter Lippmann

#25. It didn't scare him the way he had thought it would. There was still the unshakable, blind assurances that this organism Ray Garraty could not die. The others could die, they were extras in the movie of his life, but not Ray Garraty, star of that long-running hit film, The Ray Garraty Story.

Stephen King

#26. Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

#27. Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.

Jane Austen

#28. A good pay-master starts not at assurances.

George Herbert

#29. You want promises of success, assurances that all will be well? I don't do that. Ask your amah here. That's why I'm the real deal.

Yangsze Choo

#30. The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which are more sure and solid than all experience and even life itself.

Martin Luther

#31. I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me.

Barack Obama

#32. False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all.

Chris Womersley

#33. That's me," Tack answered. "Full of surprises. Now, you gonna give Lawson his assurances and make your call or are we gonna get out our knitting needles and chat while we make scarves.

Kristen Ashley

#34. With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.

Dean Acheson

#35. That's the thing about digging holes," Quinn said. "There are no assurances you'll find what you want - or want what you find.

Tami Hoag

#36. The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

Dean Koontz