Famous Quotes & Sayings

They made a lot of promises that they couldn't keep.

Dmitry Medvedev

The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

This is what you are promised for the day of reckoning.

Dusty Springfield

I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous.

John Catsimatidis

I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal.

David Cameron

I promise you this - in office, we will pull it down.

I promise we're going to be done with 77 one of these days.

I promised my wife this would be it. I've been working on it from 6 to 11 every night.

Martin Winterkorn

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.

If you've been promised a pension, we're going to make sure that you receive it.

Jack Kerouac

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

Rob Thomas

Because we've spent so much time promoting the album, doing radio shows where you play one or two songs, and doing interviews, I'm all about wanting to get on the road and just play.

Wu Bangguo

I am sure your visit will go a long way to promoting the development of China-Pakistan relations.

They told me something very interesting, they promote on merit. What a refreshing idea.

Neil Jordan

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.

John W. Gardner

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

John Podhoretz

All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.

John Piper

Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises

John Piper

Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)

Martin Luther

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

Martin Luther

Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift .

Martin Luther

God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.

Seth Godin

We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.

Seth Godin

Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.

Tom Hiddleston

I wonder what the world would be like if everybody walked their talk; if word was married with deed; promises delivered by action.

Michael Moore

Politicians never keep all their promises.

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.

Every government, from the Obama administration right through to Angela Merkel, the Eurozone and the IMF, promise to save the banks, not the economy.

The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.

Ray Bradbury

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?

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.

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.