Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Anderson

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

George Bernard Shaw

Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

John Wooden

Bill, I know what the other schools say. If you come to UCLA, I can't promise you'll make our team,

The technology has not only as much promise, but even more promise than wind energy.

So much for their promises to be more transparent.

I've not promised a single person one thing. I was a commissioner for 13 ½ years. I've got a lot of friends.

These promises of proper treatment are unenforceable. Any suspect who reveals mistreatment risks being sent back to the torture chamber.

We will be better. I can promise you that.

Bernie Sanders

Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.

We want to get to him through. I'd like to get him on the podium. That's a promise I made to him. . . . I'd like to try to keep my word.

They are a big catch. They are prominent researchers, very successful in the U.S..

Ciaran Hinds

I've never traveled to promote anything I've been in. I've only been to about two or three premieres. The way I work, I do bits, and then I'm off to something else, whether it's theater or another project.

Undelivered Promises and Betrayals of the Uruguay Round.

E. B. White

We're going to win -- I promise you.

James Mason

I'm not promising a state championship, but we should go far.

Brad Shaw

It's probably the most fantastic, unusual promotion I've seen at a casino.

It's not just about unrealized promise we should be thinking about. We should be thinking about the promise realized.

I made her promise to come right back.

I made her promise me one thing. Get back here so we can win it all.

Carmelo Anthony

I made a promise to him that in '06 I would come back (to the gym) at night. I've got to keep that promise.

I made a promise to Hannah that I'd see it through her years at least.

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

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

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.

Jeremy Paxman

The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced

Haile Gebrselassie

You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

H. G. Wells

Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.

Kumi Naidoo

Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs.

Judith Butler

Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.