Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Cocteau

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

Jeanette Winterson

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

Carl Sagan

All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.

Bertrand Russell

Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.

Carly Fiorina

Tim Cook has been asked a very specific question, in public by the way, and Tim Cook has refused in public. I don't blame him for that. I will guarantee you that there are all kinds of things that the private sector can be doing to be helpful, and they have not been engaged.

Hugo Black

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.

Howard Stern

Here's what happens when you die--you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.

Iyanla Vanzant

There are no guarantees in life, but it is a sure thing that you will get back what you give. If you give 100 percent of your attention, energy, and time to a thing, you will get exactly that back. Make sure you give all that you have to make sure you will get all that you need.

If he plays and he's not at 100 per cent, the injury will worsen. We need to have guarantees and not take any risks.

Huey Lewis

I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented.

Dannel Malloy

Indiana houses the home offices of most fraternities and sororities in the country. If Indiana doesn't pass a law that guarantees people that they'll be free of discrimination, those fraternities and sororities need to move out of Indiana.

Sepp Blatter

We could not have 12,000 people on the pitch for the gala and then use the same turf for the match on June 12. The problem was that not a single provider would give us guarantees for the proper turf replacement. Nobody would give us these guarantees.

David Levithan

I never have people tell me their stories. I usually have to figure them out myself. Because I know that if people tell me stories, they will expect them to be remembered. And I cannot guarantee that. There is no way to know if the stories stay after I'm gone. And how devastating would it be to confide in someone and have the confidence disappear? I don't want to be responsible for that.

David O. Selznick

If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.

Darrell Issa

The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.

Dag Hammarskjold

The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?

Dan Savage

Every American may have equal access to ice cream, but there's no guarantee that the outcome of eating ice cream will be equal.

Danielle Steel

...there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.

Paul Simon

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

George Brett

A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.