Famous Quotes & Sayings

Soren Kierkegaard

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

Stephen Colbert

Anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news... at you.

Thomas Goodwin

And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.

Thomas Frank

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

Ronald Reagan

If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises".

Robert W. Service

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.

Richard Paul Evans

...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

Richelle Mead

Promises. I was drowning in promises.

Richard Baxter

Get masters of families to do their duty, and they will not only spare you a great deal of labor, but will much further the success of your labors. You are not like to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation. Some little religion there may be, here and there; but while it is confined to single persons, and is not promoted in families, it will not prosper, nor promise much future increase.

Richard M. Nixon

I didn't do anything wrong and I promise to never do it again.

Sarah Dessen

But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end..

Robin McKinley

What was she to say? "The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time?

Sara Shepard

Go now. Alone. Or I make good on my promise. -A

Samuel West

We'll be back. I promise you that.

Walter Lang

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

William Carey

The future is as bright as the promise of God.

William Jennings Bryan

God may be a matter of indifference to the evolutionists, and a life beyond may have no charm for them, but the mass of mankind will continue to worship their creator and continue to find comfort in the promise of their Savior that he has gone to prepare a place for them.

Will Rogers

Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".

Zhuangzi

Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.

William Hague

Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.

Vladimir Lenin

Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

Vladimir Lenin

Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

Jostein Gaarder

But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise won’t come true.

Kofi Annan

We don't need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made.

Teju Cole

Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.

Shimon Peres

We have to take care about nature as much as nature is taking care about us. Nature is very kind with us. And if you want to enjoy the gifts of nature and the promises of nature, we have to defer to nature and its needs, its rules, its norms.

Lexa Doig

I like breaking the rules.

Marc Rotenberg

We are looking to the FTC to see whether companies that break their promises and collect personal information in an unfair and deceptive manner will be held accountable.

Rocky Graziano

Everybody who is young is promising. The world should sue the young for breach of promise.

Walt Whitman

The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.

Russell Pearce

If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it.

Russell Pearce

One of the things I'm always proud of is 'Promises made, promises kept.' I've never ever not done what I've said I'm going to do.

Russell Simmons

Suffering will always be there. You'll always have the poor. You have to own your own progress. It is true that because of the economy and the fear factor the president [Barack Obama] is able to execute a lot of promises that it would be difficult to deliver it not for the fear factor. It's funny. He's delivering on what he promised and we call it fear.