Promising Quotes

227 Promising quotes by 200 unique authors

Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first… — Jill Ciment
We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in… — Susan Sarandon
Everybody who is young is promising. The world should sue the young for breach of promise. — Rocky Graziano
Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising. — Maya Angelou
You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not… — Joseph Campbell
A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe. — Clarence Day
A good lawyer is part con man, part priest -- promising riches, threatening hell. My ethical rules are simple. I won't lie to the court… — Paul Levine
In all of America, there is no more promising an urban area for revitalization than your own Over-the-Rhine. When I look at that remarkably untouched,… — Arthur Frommer
How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric? — Thomas Sowell
Let the surgeon take care to regulate the whole regimen of the patient's life for joy and happiness by promising that he will soon be… — Henri de Mondeville
The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve… — Buzz Aldrin
The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged-All that remains for me to add, is, that you keep the… — George Washington
The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated. — Frank Scoblete
I wish I could say I was shocked at the reports the NSA is secretly spying on the private phone calls of millions of Verizon… — Ron Paul
The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a trophy for showing… — Mike Huckabee
Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and you can almost… — Edsger Dijkstra
One must exploit the asynchronies that have befallen one, link them to a promising issue or domain, reframe frustrations as opportunities, and, above all, persevere. — Howard Gardner
They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put… — Joyce Grenfell
My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape… — Terence McKenna
I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion. — Erich Fromm
In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is… — Charles Edison
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been… — Lincoln Kirstein
When you paint success pictures in your mind, you initiate an inner process whereby your attitudes, hopes, aspirations, and enthusiasm are elevated in response to… — Uell Stanley Andersen
It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Although the trends are promising and reishi mushrooms exhibit a number of interesting medicinal properties, modern scientific techniques have yet to affirm its traditional 'panacea… — Paul Stamets

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