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Quotes About Assurances

What I am saying is that Donald Trump can still get a lot of votes from a lot of conservatives like me, but I would like some assurances on where he's going to stand his ground. I'd like some assurances that he's going to be a vigorous defender for the U.S. Constitution.
~ Mike Lee
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurancesand the economy of effort it brings.
~ Walter Lippmann
something that was called an agreement is not necessarily always that. On the contrary, one party might advance their self-interest under the guise of a common decision, and in the long run it often becomes clear that someone is suffering, despite assurances to the contrary.
~ David Lagercrantz
Goldwater was, in other words, a candidate for voters in Boston as much as those in Birmingham—catering to white voters who were against the idea of federal civil rights legislation but at the same time desperate to receive assurances that this didn't make them bad people.
~ Rick Perlstein
I knew better than to put any confidence in the assurances of good-looking guys.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Promises. I was drowning in Promises
~ Richelle Mead
Voluptuous promises, Crystalline logic, Caressing assurances Lead him, the slave Of his own destruction.
~ Aeschylus
Yet conquering distance and gaining assurances that we are needed aren't exercises to be performed only once; they have to be repeated every time there's been a break -- a day away, a busy period, an evening at work -- for every interlude has the power once again to raise the question of whether or not we are still wanted.
~ Alain de Botton
It's true: Whenever I see a government rule that could clearly be used to punish people for doing innocuous things, it is never enough for some government official to just assure me that it won't be used that way. Those assurances, after all, aren't binding; they're lip service.
~ Kat Timpf
I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.
~ Dana Stabenow
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
~ Ann Radcliffe
I want to give the American people assurances that we are protecting them.
~ Michael McCaul
They effectively gave us what amounts to $150 billion, and for what? To buy our assurances that we would stop enriching uranium for a decade? To rent our promise not to build any nuclear warheads? Why would we have said no? The whole thing was a farce. We were not even asked —how does the saying go? —to sign on the dotted line.
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
grand and magnificent assurances that Beethoven tried to make, it seemed, to all of us, that everything would someday be understood and this life was worth it.
~ Anne Rice
Death is my speciality, and you have my professional assurances that it's not in any way permanent.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
~ George Eliot
She found it surprisingly easy to whisper assurances in the other woman's ear.
~ John Varley
But anyone who only expects thinking to give assurances, and awaits the day when we can go beyond it as unnecessary, is demanding that thought annihilate itself.
~ Martin Heidegger
president wanted assurances that they would be kept in the loop,
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Some US leaders invited the destitute of the world to cross their leaking borders with assurances that they would be entitled to the same.
~ Steve Martini
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
~ George Eliot
In the face of common prejudices that blame survivors for whatever happened to them, they want assurances from the community that they did not deserve to be abused.
~ Judith Lewis Herman
rather than respecting a strong internal instinct, we become fearful and look for assurances from others.
~ Brene Brown
I don't know, however, what right I have to ask a service of you. You're the person in the world who has most right, he answered. I've given you assurances that I've never given any one else.
~ Henry James