Instead of a universal basic income, we could have a basic income guarantee. Or, as economists prefer to call it, a negative income tax.
A lot of businessman come into football find it difficult. They think because they have more money to throw at it, that will work. Of course money helps but it doesn’t guarantee success.
Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.
No one listens to CDs anymore. Who even owns a CD? I used to bring my CDs to shows, and it was, like, a guarantee that everyone would buy one. Nope! Not anymore.
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of our constitutional guarantee for all persons of this country.
Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.
I can’t guarantee a husband, but by freezing my eggs, I can guarantee kids.
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
I want to say very clearly that the government… is ready to intervene in order to guarantee the stability of banks and the savings of our citizens.
There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.
Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
Atleti fans always demand your all on the field, and I guarantee that I will give them that and more.
I have more than 4 million followers on Instagram. All the companies I work for want me to guarantee how much I’ll post for them, but I’m not going to force my career onto the people who follow me. I refuse to do 40 Instagram posts about any campaign.
One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course.
Can any nation claim, guarantee, that there will be no terror strike?
There’s no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.
A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.
If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn’t just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.
The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.
I’m not a very patient person. I’ll take those quick risks to see if it’s going to work versus taking the long and tortuous road of trying to guarantee myself that something will work. That’s like self-mutilation to me.
My fans do guarantee me a good opening on the day my film releases. So the responsibility is more on me on doing quality work.
I have been in football a long time, and Wayne Rooney has been in football a long time. He would regard me as someone who is very false if I ever said to him, ‘Your place is guaranteed.’ He would not expect it, and I would be very upset anyway if anyone asked me to give them a guarantee of a place.
Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that’s another discussion entirely.
In ‘Training Day,’ Mr. Washington’s dry-ice grandeur – the predator’s reflexes contrasting with a pensive mouth – deserves regard, and his powerhouse virtuosity will almost guarantee him an Oscar nomination.
There’s this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you’re over-thinking the songwriting process. There’s no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that’s going to produce a better result, especially in the arts.
The countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into a federation.
To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.
Nationalism makes us weak because its eternal seeking of enemies, its disdain of others, its need to feel superior makes cooperation with other nations to collectively guarantee our freedom and security much more difficult.
The success of this album is very much in question. Who knows where it’s going to go? My being a Spice Girl is no guarantee of anything, although I hope it’ll benefit the sales.
There are always going to be hospital dramas because if you’re sitting in an emergency room for two hours, I guarantee you you are going to see something that makes you gasp. That’s where drama comes from.
Today’s tactical victory does not guarantee tomorrow’s strategic success.
Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.
Steroids do not guarantee you’re going to have success. I think a lot of people think that they will, but they don’t.
In the end, we will never, ever be able to guarantee that there will not be an Edward Snowden or another Chelsea Manning because this is a large enterprise composed of human beings with all their idiosyncrasies.
Great touch is often written off simply as ‘talent,’ which is crucial, because a good swing can take a golfer only so far. I’ve seen thousands of fantastic swings in my day, but that doesn’t guarantee anything.
We must… guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.
I’d rather give up most of my wealth to have the guarantee that I can carry on working for the rest of my life.
The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn’t a crazy glue sniffer.
Running a fashion business takes the heart of a good gambler. You’re always dealing with new things. And there’s no guarantee that anything new is going to be successful.
There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that’s basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors.
All working parents should have paid family leave. That’s one of many reasons I’m working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers – men and women – up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up in the hands of Al Qaeda or some other terrorist group.
It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is a thing done cold-bloodedly and with deliberation. But care and deliberation do not guarantee justice.
The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.
Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I’ve written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I’ve done it all.
My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.
It would be great if firefighters across the country had the guarantee that they would be making enough money to support their family right from the get-go, but that’s not the case.
I don’t mind dying if I have to, but I’m damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I’m sorry.
If your first film does badly, there’s no guarantee of the second film.
We are reluctant to do these bigger acquisitions that are then integrated, especially if they are committed to a certain product that they want to build that we can’t guarantee we will keep evolving.
I guarantee you 80 percent of this country will stop watching cricket if they did not bet on a match. Every single person bets I am sorry to say.
Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of virtue would guarantee a good outcome. These many years later, I know better.
In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses.
