The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.
Cindy Sherman

The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.
Robert Foster Bennett

The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.
Nguyen Van Thieu

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Stuart Chase

The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march.
William Henry Ashley

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.
Wernher von Braun

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
Titus Livius

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.
Douglas Sirk

This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.
Harry Reid

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
David Brinkley

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Karl Popper

To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.
Solomon Ortiz

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
Quintilian

To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.
Herbert Croly

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
George W. Bush

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
Abdallah II

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
Bryant H. McGill

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
Joseph Conrad

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.
James E. Rogers