Promise Quote by Pema Chödrön

Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good…

— George Horace Lorimer

“Your personal devil tries three classical approaches : a threat, a promise, and an attack on your weak side.”

— Paulo Coelho

A threat is a promise followed by a consequence.

— Amy Dickinson

“Oh, you’ll what? You’ll leave me? What’s that supposed to be—a threat or a promise?”

— Richard Yates

“Morning struck with the promise of a blazing summer's day. More of a threat than a promise. When you watch from a shaded veranda,…

— Mark Lawrence

“A threat is only a promise turned around.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.

— Alphonse Karr

A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.

— Hippolyte Taine

I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that…

— PJ Harvey

The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing…

— Atle Selberg

Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

— Anton Chekhov

Don't have a fixed idea in your head (that you have to use this or that technique). Use everything you've learned until now.

— Masaaki Hatsumi