The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin
Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man. - Ayn Rand
[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it. - John Updike
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. - Erma Bombeck
America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.
But the basic structure of capitalism, in which a small number own most of the productive assets, guarantees that the vast majority of people will (at best) spend their lives earning wages, but never profits. - Michael A. McCarthy, ABC's of Socialism
The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done. - Alain de Botton
Hard work guarantees you nothing, but without it you don't stand a chance - Pat Riley
When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply understand the choices that were taken, the roads that were walked, and that there are no guarantees to an unseen future. - Lionel Suggs
The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation. - Sam Harris
A quality wife guarantees you a quality life. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Nothing guarantees a person effortless wealth as when his SEASON comes. - Auliq-Ice
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. - Aristotle
If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately. - Edward Hallett Carr
If being beautiful guarantees "Forever with You" I'll do whatever it takes. - Aireen C. Pontillo
...Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it. - Martha N. Beck
The future isn't written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your family. Do the math. Make your own certainty. Don't be defined by what you didn't know or didn't do.You are deciding your life right now. - Meg Ray