Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.
If we guarantee employment for some, we jeopardize employment for everyone.
The U. S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.
If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality.
Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.
One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government. What is the politicians' answer? To have more costs paid by insurance companies and the government. . . . [H]aving someone else pay for medical care virtually guarantees that a lot more of it will be used. Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen.
Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.
If I`m president, I guarantee you they [Mexicans] will pay [for the wall], and they will be very, very happy about it.
You can put a dog in a scene and everyone's going to be better, I guarantee it. And if they're not better, just shoot the dog.
No two things are equal. No two people are equal. Nobody can guarantee equal outcomes unless everybody's poor.
There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
And even if you carry a survival kit around with you at all times, it won't guarantee you'll survive. No kit in the world can protect you from all the possible bad things.
Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.
Hard work pays off in the future but requires discomfort now. Laziness pays off now but guarantees discomfort in the future.
It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements of due process. The imperative necessity for safeguarding these rights to procedural due process under the gravest of emergencies has existed throughout our constitutional history, for it is then, under the pressing exigencies of crisis, that there is the greatest temptation to dispense with fundamental constitutional guarantees which, it is feared, will inhibit governmental action.
The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism.
The Constitution does not guarantee freedom of worship. It guarantees freedom of religion. And this is what I call America's first freedom.
So this is one of those times when life is just handing you something, telling you what to do, which way to go. So enjoy it. It'll be fun. I guarantee. I can't guarantee we'll find the goddamn thing, but it'll be interesting. Then if we do find it - if we do- the payoff's huge.
Commitment doesn't guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you'll fall far short of your potential.