Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling

Promise me you’ll look after yourself … stay out of trouble …’ ‘I always do, Mrs Weasley,’ said Harry. ‘I like a quiet life, you know me.

H. L. Mencken

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

Paul Farmer

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

Matt Groening

I promise I'll do anything for you, especialy if it's easy. Homer Simpson

Julia Quinn

I'm not a gentle pony... I promise you, you will have to work to keep your seat.

Leonardo da Vinci

Some promises and time disappoint us

Mitt Romney

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.

Miroslav Volf

Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.

R. C. Sproul

A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person. Until that vow is fulfilled and the promise is kept, the individual is in debt to his marriage partner. That is what he owes. 'You owe it to yourself' is not a valid excuse for breaking a marriage vow but a creed of selfishness.

Rachel Maddow

Marco Rubio calling [Donald] Trump`s ban all Muslims proposal, quote, "offensive and outlandish," it`s the same Rubio who was one upping Trump`s promise to shut down mosques. Mr. Rubio was saying he would shut down not just mosques but any place where Muslims might be radicalized - cafes, diners, any place.

Jeremy Paxman

The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced

Haile Gebrselassie

You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

Haile Gebrselassie

When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

H. G. Wells

Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.

Kristin Hannah

Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

Mike Ditka

Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them.

Muhtar Kent

A brand is a promise. A good brand is a promise kept.

Kim Harrison

You can trust me to keep my word. I always keep my word, promises or threats.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

Kenny Rogers

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

Margaret Thatcher

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

Margaret Deland

When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.

Honore de Balzac

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

He ran me over one time, but I promised to get him back, ... So I did.

He promised serious support from the side of the United States.

So much for their promises to be more transparent.

Ross got fouled, I promise you that. Oh, he got fouled, and it wasn't called.

I've not promised a single person one thing. I was a commissioner for 13 ½ years. I've got a lot of friends.

These promises of proper treatment are unenforceable. Any suspect who reveals mistreatment risks being sent back to the torture chamber.

This is the first salvo in what promises to be a very interesting battle,

This is not what students want, I promise you.

This is what you are promised for the day of reckoning.

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain