#assured

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#alarm #arm #between #boldly #brilliance

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#belief #believe #gets #launching #most

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#country #depths #enactment #gamble #going

Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#first #globe #international #international law #just

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#become #chicago #decline #did #i

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#assured #become #effort #future #gamble

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#hang #indeed #most #must #separately

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#compatibility #could #end #everybody #knows

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#achieved #arrive #assured #climbed #lasting

Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#assured #based #best #best interests #eventual