Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit…

— Giambattista Bodoni

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

Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts…

— Abby May Alcott

“I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use…

— Marisha Pessl

The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the…

— Albert Camus

I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in…

— Laurence Sterne

The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons…

— Bernard Lewis

If God has laid your sins upon the Son of His love, you may rest assured that He will never lay them a second…

— Octavius Winslow

In Canada, I've had success raising money. I think I was fortunate enough. But today, I would have to write a very, very bad…

— Philippe Falardeau

Rest assured that our work is not over because our work has never been only hunting Nazi war criminals. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is…

— Marvin Hier

God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those…

— Louis Pasteur

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

— Havelock Ellis

The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their…

— John Playfair

I believe we have these capabilities. It doesn't mean that we will use them. Our future is not assured here. It's not clear that…

— Edgar Mitchell

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and…

— Suze Orman