Promising Quotes

227 Promising quotes by 200 unique authors

So you're stuck. Every time your madman starts to write, your judge pounces on him... So start by promising your judge that you'll get around… — Betty Sue Flowers
As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father… — Jessica Valenti
The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought. — Frank Barron
Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising. — George Bernard Shaw
Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care… — Thomas Frank
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. — Cyril Connolly
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments. — Leonardo da Vinci
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. — Robertson Davies
Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected. — Clint Eastwood
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life. — Havelock Ellis
My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to… — Naveen Jain
I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was… — Jon Meacham
I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be… — Joyce Meyer
I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was… — Sarah Palin
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction… — Pope John Paul II
Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined… — Christine Pelosi
That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training… — Will Self
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability… — Anna Deavere Smith
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. — Gertrude Stein
A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out. — Taylor Swift
When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those… — Mark Udall
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. — Elwyn Brooks White
In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird. — Olivia Wilde
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes. — George Will
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven. — Charles Williams

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