Assurance Quotes - Page 2

If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?

It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

There is anything but an assurance of success, I have to be very clear about that.

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.

Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.

And, of course, customers really need to feel safe and are seeking reassurance when they fly.

She hesitated, then reached out to Jared in her mind, and uncertainty washed away in the wave of reassurance she got back.

Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.

What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.

Before I chose Dauntless...I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go because I choose to.

When you tour you become more intimate with your audience. It's like I need reassurance that they like me or at least find me relevant. And that I can still do it.

Sunshine, it’s the Celt wanting a little reassurance that I haven’t eaten you or anything. (Vane)

Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have the reassurance that our course is right.

Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.

We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody's nobody.

When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.

Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.

The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.

Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.

All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

A good pay-master starts not at assurances.