Guarantees Quotes - Page 8

Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the rhetoric of liberalism - labeling each new entitlement a 'right reinforces this sense of entitlement.' -

...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on.

The First Amendment is crucial. Of course it is. So are all the others. And the Second Amendment is the one that guarantees that people can bear arms to protect themselves.

The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

Chemistry does not guarantee compatibility.

We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

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.

Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.

But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.

There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your stay with us, this hotel is totally smoke-free. For any infringement of this regulation, you will be charged $200.' The beauty of this formulation, taken literally, is that you are to be punished for refusing to fully enjoy your stay.

While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except when we are unable to meet our basic physical needs.

The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.

No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization.