Made Quote by Ethel M. Dell Download Open image “Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.” — Ethel M. Dell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Made People Promise Trust
The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them would prove harmful to those to whom you have made them. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
PROMISES what a stupid word. Many believed and still believes that promises are true, but what's true is that PROMISES are made just to… — Florabel Copy Share Image
Promises means nothing if you don't keep them, it's like preaching the good deeds but doing the opposite behind doors. — Noxolo Zulu Copy Share Image
Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“People's ways are all so different. It's rather infernal—trying to please everybody” — Ethel M. Dell Copy Share Image
“Isn't it possible—sometime—to try to know too much? There is such a thing as looking too closely, mon ami. And then we pay the… — Ethel M. Dell Copy Share Image
That's the worst of doctors. They are so keen about the body, but they don't study the soul at all. — Ethel M. Dell Copy Share Image
Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast. — Ethel M. Dell Copy Share Image
I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend. — Ethel M. Dell Copy Share Image
“The gods have sent you a gift, and because you don't know what it is made of, you are going to pull it to… — Ethel M. Dell Copy Share Image
What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new. — Ethel M. Dell Copy Share Image
we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves. — Ethel M. Dell Copy Share Image
People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store. — Ethel M. Dell Copy Share Image
there was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their… — Ethel M. Dell Copy Share Image
Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
I made $225.81 a week as an accountant, and I went to $400 a week as a stand-up. I was up to $800 a… — John Pinette Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When… — Natalie Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
