Promising Quotes

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo Coelho

Work, Start, Lose

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
Pope John Paul II

Work, Evil, Hard

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.
Clint Eastwood

Everything, Everybody, Elected

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E. B. White

Nothing, Space, View

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
William J. Clinton

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
Gertrude Stein

Nothing, After, Beginning

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.
Taylor Swift

Time, Money, Giving

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
Robert Byrne

Life, Politics, Young

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
Havelock Ellis

Life, Social, Effect

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.
Sarah Palin

Today, End, Law

Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.
Thomas Frank

Nature, Health, Government

I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived.
Jon Meacham

Dreams, History, Short

I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet.
Antonio Banderas

Young, Actor, Maybe

Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Life, Forward, Allah

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly

Wish, Call, Destroy

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
Anna Deavere Smith

Freedom, Future, American

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
Anita Brookner

Yourself, Selfish, Become

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
Mary Astell

Love, Woman, She

Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product.
Matthew Lesko

Care, Enough, Means

We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.
King Hussein I

Peace, Future, Between

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
Charles Williams

Down, Forgive, Broken

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies

Life, Happy, Childhood

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
James Broughton

Poetry, Real, Few

I remember years ago being on the set of 'Dreamcatcher' and not only did I have such great admiration for Morgan Freeman and was just thrilled to be around him, I was struck by the fact that he seemed to be having perhaps more fun than I was at his job. And I thought, 'Well, that's very promising.'
Timothy Olyphant

Great, Fun, Job

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.
Paul Martin

Afford, Deliver, Delivering

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.
Tom Allen

Medical, May, Lives

When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'
Mark Udall

Marriage, Death, Talk

Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map.
Kent McCord

Free, Looks, Drive

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
Hermann Broch

Hope, Alone, Important

Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.
Anatoly Karpov

History, Future, School

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