#assured

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

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured. ↗

— Joseph Glanvill

#assured #certain #construed #deceive #faculties

I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose. ↗

— Ashley Judd

#always #assured #gift #had #i

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured. ↗

— Marcy Kaptur

#assured #been #counted #denied #elections

One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him. ↗

— James Kirkwood

#assured #closed #courtroom #doors #down

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

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. ↗

— Tacitus

#assured #best #done #evil #friends

I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#assured #color #confidence #could #distinction

You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last. ↗

— Ralph Abernathy

#black #brown #christ #die #ever

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#pride #self-assuredness #truism #men