Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Jordan

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

Ron Paul

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

John Hagee

God's promise will bring your provision.

Gayle Forman

I get it now. I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go.

Mahatma Gandhi

God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

Never make a promise in haste.

Mahatma Gandhi

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

Fred Thompson

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

Frank Lautenberg

Flip-flopping is kind of an easy thing to identify. During a recent convention, we heard an irate Senator make an angry speech declaring that it is not what you say but, rather, what you do that counts. You flip-flop when you make promises and fail to fulfill them.

John Steinbeck

One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You look so out of your element. (Savitar) I am out of my element. Much like you in a Seattle Goth club. (Acheron) I’m never out of my element, Atlantean. And it must be dire indeed to get you in shorties, and on a board. One day I’m actually going to get you to say ‘Rad four-mill steamer, dude! (Savitar)

Henning Mankell

Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.

Ignatius of Loyola

If, one day, I should offend God in any way, or grow remiss, though ever so little, in that which concerns His holy service and glory, I solemnly implore Him, rather let me die.

James Branch Cabell

Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I invented that little rhyme about 'One Ring to rule them all', I remember, in the bath one day.

Elle Fanning

As my sister got older, I saw how excited she got when she got to do all of that stuff. I was always like, "One day, I'll get to do older parts." I thought that was cool.

Elle Fanning

I would love to work with Marion Cotillard and my sister! I've never worked with Dakota before in a movie. It'd be so cool to be on screen interacting with each other one day. It will happen, I'm just not sure when.

Ian Chappell

A Test match is like a painting. A one day match is like a Rolf Harris painting.

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Busy Philipps

Nobody wants to see a bejeweled pregnant lady from top to bottom.

Alain de Botton

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

Miley Cyrus

I'm just about equality, period. It's not like, I'm a woman, women should be in charge! I just want there to be equality for everybody.

Desmond Dekker

You can get it if you really want

Arthur Schopenhauer

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)

Eckhart Tolle

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

Eckhart Tolle

An enlightened person or business is not concerned primarily with making money, because when you are concerned with making money you want the future more than the present. Whenever you want the future more than you want the present, true intelligence cannot flow into what you do, because it can do so only when you are totally aligned with the present moment.