Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. B. White

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.