Promising Quotes

227 Promising quotes by 200 unique authors

Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no… — Dag Hammarskjold
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find… — Tom Robbins
There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising. — Donald Barthelme
Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but… — Pope Benedict XVI
Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs? — Richard Bach
He takes her in his arms He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you But he thinks this is a lie, so… — Louise GluÌˆck
This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Transience is the force of time that makes a ghost of every experience. There was never a dawn, regardless how beautiful or promising, that did… — John O'Donohue
As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing. — Mark Helprin
One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what… — Vladimir Putin
Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open… — Cornelia Funke
I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second:… — Truman Capote
The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may… — Maya Angelou
Death like a lover, caressing him, promising him peace, running its fingers through his hair, its tongue in his ear. She put her own two… — Janet Fitch
Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains… — Salman Rushdie
I wasn’t sure which of us was being more selfish—her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something… — Maggie Stiefvater
Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem,… — Nick Hornby
Good God," I said. "This is the most stereotypical vampire food ever." "Only if it was raw. What do you think?" "It's good," I said… — Richelle Mead
Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book… — John Kennedy Toole
Fang and I searched in every way we could think of and found a million institutes of one kind or another, in Manhattan and throughout… — James Patterson
Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper,"… — Lewis Carroll
He said he "admired our courage" but didn't want to see us do anything to "damage our promising futures." He felt "proud as an American"… — Jordan Sonnenblick
But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today. — Suzanne Collins
I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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