William Shakespeare Quotes

He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

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• If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Smile

• 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

• New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Life
  • Animal
  • Fight

• We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Trying
  • America

• I'm not always happy, I promise. I can be serious.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Serious

• 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

• Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Never
  • Promise
  • Promises

• I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Power

• 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

• We believe in the Australian promise; that if you work hard, you won't be left behind.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Promise

• Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Hope
  • Hand
  • Universe

• I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Promise
  • Animals
  • Behavior

• 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

• If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • World
  • Success
  • Wish

• These voices blame the Middle East's only democracy for the region's extremism. They offer the false promise that abandoning a stalwart ally is somehow the path to strength. It is not, it never has been, and it never will be.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Democracy
  • Path
  • Promise

• Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Today
  • Promise

• Darling, you can't promise that...but I like to hear you say it.

  

  P. D. James
  • Promise

• Donald Trump needs to stay focused and remember the promises to you, the American people. You know the promises, repeal and replace Obamacare, identify radical Islam, lower taxes, repatriate corporate profits, build the border wall, appoint originalists to the Supreme Court, fix inner cities, energy independence, drain the swamp, send education back to the states, you know, say radical Islam, vet refugees, all of these important issues, free trade.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • People
  • Wall
  • Promise

• I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Like
  • Feel
  • I Feel Like

• It's cheesy, but having a pimple or a bad hair day isn't going to matter in five years. I don't always remember that, but I try.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Remember
  • Bad
  • Day

• The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

  

  David Whyte
  • Death
  • Lion

• He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Promise
  • Precise