Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kristin Hannah

Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

Mike Ditka

Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them.

H. L. Mencken

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

Gary Hamel

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

Honore de Balzac

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

Ice Cube

A lot of movies will deliver on the promotion but when you go see them, everything you laughed at was in the trailer.

He ran me over one time, but I promised to get him back, ... So I did.

He promised serious support from the side of the United States.

Jonathan Tisch

I can promise you as an American and a New Yorker that you were there for us, and we will be there for you.

I'd rather have you tell me you can't do anything for me than promise me something you can't deliver.

Jonny Wilkinson

I am not making any promises about how long he will play, but he will get on at some stage.

Jesse Ventura

I don't want to make promises I can't keep.

Elvis Costello

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

Hillary Clinton

I can't compete with making promises you can't keep.

Herbert Croly

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

Herbert Croly

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

Evelyn Waugh

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

Jack Kerouac

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

Irving Fisher

Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess

Luke Evans

Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' friends showed me around.

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.

They were promising me that I could play anything I want to, just like I'm doing now,

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

Lytton Strachey

A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile

John Flavel

It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.

John F. Kennedy

The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

John F. Kennedy

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

Jonah Hill

You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for them.

Ovid

Anyone can be rich in promises.

Paul McCartney

There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that.... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off.

Peter Garrett

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.

Marty Feldman

Hookers have to deliver on their promise... unlike politicians.