Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Jordan

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

Simone Elkeles

We deserve each other, Luis … and I need you just as much as you need me. Hold me.” He steps closer, but hesitates. “If I do, mi chava, I can’t promise I’ll be able to let you go.

Ron Paul

History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled,

Stephen Stills

But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.

Alison Davis

Just give us the directions. I promise we'll show up.

Georgette Heyer

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.

William Carey

The future is as bright as the promise of God.

Paul Gauguin

I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.

Eduardo Galeano

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

Cotton Mather

That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

Anne Rice

You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.

Rita Mae Brown

Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.

Rob Lowe

Everybody is God. Everybody is the devil. And if you don't realize you have both parts, that's what really causes problems.

Thomas Carlyle

The devil has his elect.

Tony Campolo

Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil.

St. Jerome

Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.

St. Jerome

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

Michael McGuire

Essentially, he has served about 85 percent of his sentence, which was all he was supposed to serve. He got no special favors or anything like that.

Alexander Pope

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

Angela Lansbury

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

Fareed Zakaria

I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

Troy Vincent

Life favors those who are prepared