#assurance

. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it's white, and looking at it, instead of saying "Oh that's nice blossom" ... last week looking at it through the window when I'm writing, I see it is the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be, and I can see it. Things are both more trivial than they ever were, and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn't seem to matter. But the nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous, and if people could see that, you know. There's no way of telling you; you have to experience it, but the glory of it, if you like, the comfort of it, the reassurance ... not that I'm interested in reassuring people - bugger that. The fact is, if you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#celebrate #comfort #death #importance #now

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#deal #discussed #discussions #give #good

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#else #greater #like #reassurance #than

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier. ↗

— Nina Garcia

#confidence #self-assurance #self-esteem #self-worth #style

I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were. ↗

— Kenneth More

#being #changed #down #feel #game

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose? ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#boundaries #enclose #i #i write #know

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#best #immortality #nature #our #perhaps

However, there is no assurance that we can produce world class players so soon. Only time can tell. ↗

— Jahangir Khan

#class #however #only #only time #players

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. ↗

— Walter Scott

#boldness #doing #duty #energy #our

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears. ↗