Famous Quotes & Sayings

Esther Hicks

If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story.

Ernest Hemingway

And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.

Cassandra Clare

You promise me, he said. That you love him. Enough to marry him and make him happy.

Iris Apfel

The world is always full of promise.

Jeff Bezos

Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.

George Will

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

Jean Chatzky

No company can promise an end date, but if you have multiple debts, the first one should be settled within a year.

George Washington

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.

George Washington

Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.

George Santayana

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

George Santayana

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

George McGovern

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

Fred Allen

In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.

Fred Allen

With the advance of refrigeration, I hope that along with the frozen foods someday we will have frozen conversation. A person will be able to keep a frozen promise indefinitely.

George W. Bush

I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here.

George R. R. Martin

I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.

Ezra Taft Benson

I promise you that, with increased attendance in the temples of our God, you shall receive increased personal revelation to bless your life as you bless those who have died

Francis Chan

God never breaks His promises.

Jean de La Fontaine

How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.

Harriet Harman

The Chancellor has delivered his first budget but it's the same old Tories ; hitting hardest at those who can least afford it and breaking their promises. This is true to form for the Tories, but it includes things that the Liberal Democrats have always fought against. Surely they cannot vote for this.

Horace Bushnell

Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin.

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.

Ken Hitchcock

We will be better, I promise you that.

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.

Undelivered Promises and Betrayals of the Uruguay Round.