Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.
Patrick J. Kennedy

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.
Lewis Hallam

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
Charles Horton Cooley

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
John Acton

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.
Alan Cox

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.
Robert Collier

For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.
Henry Norris Russell

For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.
Grace Napolitano

Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
Ieyasu Tokugawa

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

I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.
Adolf Hitler

If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?
Joseph Stiglitz

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Samuel Johnson

It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.
Donald Cargill

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

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

Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.
Richard Curtis

My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.
Henry Laurens

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.
Gertrude Himmelfarb

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
John Locke