Promising Quotes

227 Promising quotes by 200 unique authors

Oh, hey. This looks promising. " We came to a stop before a high, barbwire fence with an enormous PRIVATE PROPERTY--NO UNAUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ALLOWED sign… — Richelle Mead
Amy Cahill didn't believe in omens. But black snow was falling, he earth was rumbling beneath her feet, her brother was meowing, and her uncle… — Peter Lerangis
You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody,… — David Foster Wallace
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given… — John Fowles
All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight and dancing and… — Catherynne M. Valente
Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance,… — Jeffrey Eugenides
All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is… — Leonardo da Vinci
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. — Sylvia Plath
Besides, when not hard at work with this research, I'm actually conducting a side experiment on how cigarettes and gin increase charisma. As you might… — Richelle Mead
The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other… — Tatiana de Rosnay
How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away. Nets and… — David Foster Wallace
Ready?" Despite the grim mood, I smiled and cracked my knuckles. "Ready to wrestle with my gorgeous boyfriend? Oh, I'd say I'm ready for that."… — Becca Fitzpatrick
One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but thats quite hard to say casually, at the beginning of a… — Jeanette Winterson
You should make great things, not promising great things. — Pythagoras
On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read… — Elizabeth Gaskell
By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's. — Jeanette Winterson
Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from the manticore.… — Rick Riordan
We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange… — Maya Angelou
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. — Unknown Author
Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the… — Alexander Fraser Tytler
Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its… — Charles Krauthammer
As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on… — Douglas Coupland
Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents. — Nikola Tesla
An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible… — Lisa Randall
With so much money invested in their most promising projects, Hollywood executives will understandably do everything in their power to make their products a success… — Anita Elberse

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