Paul Gauguin Quotes

I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.

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• I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Trust
  • Promise
  • Back

• Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Government
  • Promise
  • Generation

• I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Tired
  • Promise
  • Need

• Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

  

  Walter Lang
  • God
  • Love
  • Promise

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Gold
  • Promise
  • Bank

• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  

  Wade Davis
  • People
  • Children
  • Wisdom

• Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Soul
  • Promise
  • Advertisement

• After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Health
  • Promise

• I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I DEMAND of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Action
  • Purpose

• Tell me why I feel so bad, honey Fighting left me plenty of money But didn't keep the promise of memory lapses Like a building that's been slated for blasting I'm the proof that nothing is lasting Counting to eleven as it collapses

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Money
  • Why
  • Bad

• To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.

  

  Albert Gubay
  • God
  • Money
  • Promise

• I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win medals. My mum had given me a bag of medals which she had won when she was young, so the idea of winning medals was very exciting.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • She
  • Winning
  • Promise

• Alas, we have not yet the power to render completely sterile or make impossible the errors and lies which will merely be America being itself rather than its unconvincing promise.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Power
  • America
  • Lies

• I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.

  

  Mary Matalin
  • Writing
  • She
  • Promise

• Be the guy that delivers the goods and consistently promise things that you can deliver. Even if you under-promise, it's better than over-promising and not delivering, because you don't get a lot of tries.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Guy
  • Promise

• The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • People
  • World
  • Smart

• Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Truth
  • Hope
  • Progress

• No Compromise is what the whole Gospel of Jesus is all about... 'For I tell you...no man can serve two masters...' (Matt. 6:24). In a day when believers seem to be trying to please both the world and the Lord (which is an impossible thing), when people are far more concerned about offending their friends than offending God, there is only one answer...Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him!

  

  Keith Green
  • People
  • Jesus
  • Impossible

• Ambitio multos mortales falsos fieri subegit, aliud clausum in pectore, aliud in lingua promptum habere, amicitias inimicitiasque non ex re, sed ex commodo aestimare, magisque vultum quam ingenium bonum habere.

  

  Sallust

• I already enjoy cooking. I like different flavors and putting different things together and really like taking normal recipes to a higher level.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Different
  • Together
  • Cooking

• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • American
  • America

• I've got to read the 'Hunger Games' before I see the movie.

  

  Misty May-Treanor
  • Movie
  • Games
  • Hunger

• I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Promise
  • Might
  • Masters