Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Angelou

The future is plump with promise.

Maya Angelou

We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.

Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.

Mary Ellen Mark

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

Peter Drucker

There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality... That this promise was an illusion we all know.

Mark Levin

Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

Michael Card

Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise. A saving promise.

Michael Caine

No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.

Michael Caine

I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.

Merv Griffin

If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it.

Markus Zusak

I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.- spoken by death

Ted Cruz

I promise you, Donald [Trump], there's nothing about you that makes anyone nervous.

Ted Cruz

Politicians make promises and they don't do what they said they would do: the reason why so many politicians in Washington are unhappy with me.

Theodore Parker

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

Kevin Systrom

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

Mikhail Saakashvili

I promise not to become a source of shame for you.

James Lee Burke

If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?

James F. Byrnes

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

Henry B. Eyring

If you ponder the scriptures and begin to do what you covenanted with God to do, I can promise you that you will feel more love for God and more of His love for you.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Next time!' In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

Malcolm Muggeridge

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

All I have ever said is that they made the promise to do that and they should live up to it.

Eric Hoffer

There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.

Eric Hoffer

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.

John Bevere

Simply put, the promises of God are not automatic; they must be acquired by faith.

Ben Bernanke

The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.

This is the first salvo in what promises to be a very interesting battle,

This is not what students want, I promise you.

This is quite unusual and it's a very promising result.

Thomas Jefferson

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

Tablo

All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?

Ron Wyden

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.