Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Levin

Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

Nikki Sixx

Just let it happen and, I promise you, all that is magic will appear.

Mother Teresa

Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.

John W. Gardner

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

John Podhoretz

All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.

John Piper

Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises

John Piper

Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)

Martin Luther

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

Martin Luther

Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift .

Martin Luther

God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.

Peter Drucker

There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality... That this promise was an illusion we all know.

Holly Black

Some promises aren’t worth keeping.

James F. Byrnes

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

Malcolm Muggeridge

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

Maya Angelou

The future is plump with promise.

Maya Angelou

We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.

Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.

Kelley Armstrong

Release the demon under promise that I'd be repaid handsomely, my enemies destroyed? Hmm, where had I seen this before? Oh, right. Every demon horror movie ever made. And the horror part started right after the releasing part.

Narendra Modi

From experience I can say that we can make our nation corruption free. Only promises won't help...Irade Nek Hone Chahiye.

Narendra Modi

I can promise you. If you work 12 hours, I will work for 13. If you work 14 hours, I will work for 15 hours. Why? Because I am not a ‘pradhan mantri’, but a ‘pradhan sevak’.

Norman Mailer

The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center.

Norman Mailer

Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.

Orson Welles

I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.

All I have ever said is that they made the promise to do that and they should live up to it.

Eric Hoffer

There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.

Eric Hoffer

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.

Johann Lamont

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

John C. Stennis

The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats.

Norman Vincent Peale

Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.

Norman Vincent Peale

Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.

Emile Zola

Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!

Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans.