“ A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life. ”
- Robert Byrne- Copy
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“ I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. ”
- E. B. White- Copy
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“ We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future. ”
- King Hussein I- Copy
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“ What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone. ”
- Hermann Broch- Copy
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“ The deep rewards of giving go to those who give out of a concern for others, and take pains to see that their giving is wisely done, to meet real needs and seize promising opportunities. ”
- Emerson F. Andrews- Copy
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“ Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven. ”
- Charles William- Copy
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“ Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. ”
- Oscar Ameringer- Copy
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“ Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
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“ Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness. ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
- 319
“ Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them. ”
- Joyce Grenfell- Copy
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“ My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments. ”
- Alexandra Kosteniuk- Copy
- 1.8K
“ In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today. ”
- Lincoln Kirstein- Copy
- 59
“ Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them. ”
- Josefa Iloilo- Copy
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“ We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate — thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
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