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Familiar Quotations

Assurance

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.–Lord Acton

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.–Jose Ortega Y Gasset

No quality assurance program, whether it be voluntary or imposed can correct frequent mistakes and unreliable performance introduced by insufficient training, inadequate laboratory environment, and poor administrative practices.–William Horwitz

With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to let the love of our country soar above all minor passions, I tender you the assurance of my affectionate esteem and respect.–Thomas Jefferson

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.–Orison Swett Marden

Assurance is two-thirds of success.–Gaelic Proverb

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.–Eleanor Roosevelt

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.–Bertrand Russell

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

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

• Preface viii
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Assurance 1
• Assurance, as opposed to "Doubt" 2
• Assurance, as opposed to "Insecurity" 2
• Assurance, as opposed to "Lie" 2
• Assurance, as opposed to "Mistrust" 3
• Assurance, as opposed to "Uncertainty" 3
• Use in Literature 4
• Assurance 4
• Assurance – "Affiance" 18
• Assurance – "Air" 19
• Assurance – "Answer" 20
• Assurance – "Anxiety" 21
• Assurance – "Arm" 21
• Assurance – "Beautiful" 22
• Assurance – "Beg" 22
• Assurance – "Behind" 23
• Assurance – "Being" 24
• Assurance – "Believe" 25
• Assurance – "Best" 26
• Assurance – "Bold" 27
• Assurance – "Calmer" 27
• Assurance – "Captain's" 28
• Assurance – "Carried" 29
• Assurance – "Case" 29
• Assurance – "Cause" 30
• Assurance – "Certain" 31
• Assurance – "Chief" 32
• Assurance – "Christian" 32
• Assurance – "Comfort" 33
• Assurance – "Came" 35
• Assurance – "Completely" 37
• Assurance – "Confident" 38
• Assurance – "Day" 39
• Assurance – "Dearest" 41
• Assurance – "Death" 41
• Assurance – "Desired" 42
• Assurance – "Done" 43
• Assurance – "Dream" 43
• Assurance – "Expressing" 44
• Assurance – "Eye" 45
• Assurance – "Faith" 46
• Assurance – "Family" 47
• Assurance – "Farther" 48
• Assurance – "Father's" 49
• Assurance – "Feelings" 50
• Assurance – "Felt" 51
• Assurance – "Few" 52
• Assurance – "Followed" 53
• Assurance – "Found" 54
• Assurance – "Friends" 55
• Assurance – "Fullest" 56
• Assurance – "Girl" 57
• Assurance – "God" 58
• Assurance – "Go" 59
• Assurance – "Great" 60
• Assurance – "Hand" 63
• Assurance – "Happy" 64
• Assurance – "Having" 65
• Assurance – "Head" 66
• Assurance – "Heard" 67
• Assurance – "Hearts" 68
• Assurance – "Herself" 70
• Assurance – "Hope" 70
• Assurance – "Hour" 71
• Assurance – "Impressions" 72
• Assurance – "Keep" 73
• Assurance – "Kindly" 74
• Assurance – "King" 74
• Assurance – "Lady" 75
• Assurance – "Leave" 76
• Assurance – "Life" 77
• Assurance – "Little" 78
• Assurance – "Looked" 80
• Assurance – "Lord" 81
• Assurance – "Lost" 82
• Assurance – "Love" 82
• Assurance – "Made" 84
• Assurance – "Men" 88
• Assurance – "Manner" 90
• Assurance – "Matter" 91
• Assurance – "Meaning" 91
• Assurance – "Miss" 92
• Assurance – "Morning's" 93
• Assurance – "Myself" 93
• Assurance – "Need" 94
• Assurance – "Night" 95
• Assurance – "Note" 96
• Assurance – "Nothing" 96
• Assurance – "Offering" 99
• Assurance – "Old" 99
• Assurance – "Once" 100
• Assurance – "Opened" 101
• Assurance – "Opinion" 102
• Assurance – "Order" 103
• Assurance – "People" 103
• Assurance – "Perfectly" 104
• Assurance – "Pleased" 105
• Assurance – "Poor" 105
• Assurance – "Power" 106
• Assurance – "Praise" 107
• Assurance – "Pray" 107
• Assurance – "Presence" 108
• Assurance – "Present" 108
• Assurance – "Pride" 109
• Assurance – "Principal" 110
• Assurance – "Promised" 111
• Assurance – "Question" 112
• Assurance – "Quietly" 112
• Assurance – "Reason" 113
• Assurance – "Received" 114
• Assurance – "Relieved" 117
• Assurance – "Respectability" 117
• Assurance – "Rest" 118
• Assurance – "Returned" 118
• Assurance – "Satisfy" 120
• Assurance – "Second" 121
• Assurance – "Sense" 121
• Assurance – "Sent" 122
• Assurance – "Shall" 123
• Assurance – "Silence" 124
• Assurance – "Sir" 124
• Assurance – "Soon" 125
• Assurance – "Spoke" 126
• Assurance – "Spirits" 128
• Assurance – "Spite" 129
• Assurance – "State" 130
• Assurance – "Step" 131
• Assurance – "Strange" 132
• Assurance – "Strength" 132
• Assurance – "Strong" 133
• Assurance – "Success" 134
• Assurance – "Sure" 135
• Assurance – "Tending" 136
• Assurance – "Thing" 136
• Assurance – "Thought" 138
• Assurance – "Tried" 140
• Assurance – "Trustees" 141
• Assurance – "Visit" 142
• Assurance – "Voice" 142
• Assurance – "Wanted" 143
• Assurance – "Warm" 144
• Assurance – "Wished" 144
• Assurance – "Woman" 145
• Assurance – "Wonder" 145
• Assurance – "Word" 146
• Assurance – "World" 147
• Assurance – "Wrote" 148
• Assurance – "Years" 149
• Assurance – "Young" 150
• Assurance, as opposed to "Doubt" 150
• Assurance, as opposed to "Insecurity" 152
• Assurance, as opposed to "Uncertainties" 152
• Nonfiction Usage 154
• Script Usage 154
• Historical Usage 154
• Presidential Usage 154
• Bible Usage 156
• Qur'anic Usage 157
• Journalism Usage 157
• Legal Usage 257
• Governmental Usage 259
• Patent Usage 264
• Bibliographic Usage 272
• Encyclopedic Usage 378
• Lexicographic Usage 385
• Index 422