Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.
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.
I'm not sure who invented dodgeball, but I can almost guarantee you that it wasn't the shortest kid in the class.
It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.
Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.
You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.
. . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.
Accumulating years in the act of living is no guarantee of maturity. In fact, it is possible to be born, grow old and die without ever maturing.
I MAY NOT BE MUCH ELSE IN THIS WORLD BUT I GUARANTEE YOU I AM GETTING INTO RAPPER HEAVEN.
This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too.
We can not guarantee success, we can strive to deserve it.
What we must remember, however, is that preservation of liberties does not depend on motives. A suppression of liberty has the same effect whether the suppressor be a reformer or an outlaw. The only protection against misguided zeal is constant alertness to infractions of the guarantees of liberty contained in our Constitution. Each surrender of liberty to the demands of the moment makes easier another, larger surrender. . .
You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.
Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American's guarantee of freedom.
There will come a time where I'm not gonna do this anymore. I mean, there will come a time, definitely, where I'll turn into Elvis I'm gonna be fat and fishin', I guarantee you.
A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.
The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.