Best Promptly Sayings
98 Promptly quotes by 89 unique authors
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Promptly report your action to the one who requested it.
— Morton Blackwell
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
— John Henry Newman
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PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold,…
— Ernest Bramah
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All true and living devotion presupposes the love of God and indeed it is neither more nor less than a very real love of God,…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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The truly essential bargain between host and guest requires the guest only to respond promptly, show up on time, socialize with other guests, thank the…
— Judith Martin
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Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one…
— Thomas A. Edison
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America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
— John W. Gardner
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Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the…
— Hugh Hefner
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A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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Accept that the moment you buy your latest iPad, iPhone, tablet, app or game it will be promptly followed by a vastly improved and sleeker…
— Simon Mainwaring
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Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it's direction you get in His Word or something He's specifically put in your…
— Joyce Meyer
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if…
— Leo Rosten
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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
— Mark Twain
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If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and…
— Douglas Coupland
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In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy,…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.
— Albert Camus
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How old are you?” “Seventeen,” he answered promptly. “And how long have you been seventeen?” His lips twitched as he stared at the road. “A…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Who else is going?" I asked. He shrugged. "Just you and me." My mood promptly shot up past 'cheerful' and went straight to 'estatic.' Me…
— Richelle Mead
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Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
— Douglas Adams
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No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the…
— Connie Willis
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He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer…
— Alain de Botton
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