Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Kerouac

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

Irving Fisher

Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess

George Bernard Shaw

Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

David Cameron

I promise you this - in office, we will pull it down.

I promise we're going to be done with 77 one of these days.

I promised my wife this would be it. I've been working on it from 6 to 11 every night.

Jane Yolen

Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos.

After I boated that big one, I had to sit down for 10 minutes. I promised myself I wasn't going to scream and holler like an idiot, but I did.

Benjamin Franklin

Promises may get thee Friends, but Nonperformance will turn them into Enemies.

Personalized shopping experiences on the web are still a long way from reality for most of the merchants surveyed. This is the ultimate promise of the web and must be part of any strategy.

The technology has not only as much promise, but even more promise than wind energy.

Gary Hamel

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

George Washington

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.

George Washington

Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.

George Santayana

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

George Santayana

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

George McGovern

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

Elvis Costello

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

Hillary Clinton

I can't compete with making promises you can't keep.

Herbert Croly

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

Robert Blake

You swore to me, you promised me, you promised,

Cassandra Clare

You promise me, he said. That you love him. Enough to marry him and make him happy.

I made her promise to come right back.

I made her promise me one thing. Get back here so we can win it all.

Carmelo Anthony

I made a promise to him that in '06 I would come back (to the gym) at night. I've got to keep that promise.

I made a promise to Hannah that I'd see it through her years at least.

Judith Butler

Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.

Steven Pinker

Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.

Sue Kelly

But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations.

John Calvin

We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.

John Calvin

There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.

John Calvin

Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.

Henry Ward Beecher

The beginning is the promise of the end.