Alfred de Musset Quotes

It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!

Alfred de Musset

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• I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Live
  • Promise
  • Performance

• If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Promise
  • Public
  • Officials

• The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Live
  • Path
  • Broken

• We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
  • Serious
  • Forget
  • Will

• No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Remember
  • Never
  • Forget

• I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Earth

• When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Women
  • You
  • Forget

• I'll often get obsessed with something for about three days, and I'll be utterly into it, and I'll read every single thing about it possible. And then three days later, I'll just forget about it, and I'll be onto something else.

  

  Ed Gamble
  • Single
  • Forget
  • Three

• I'll forget what day it is sometimes. I have to look in my calendar every once in a while.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Day
  • Forget
  • Calendar

• People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • People
  • Today
  • Forget

• 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

• 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

• Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Forget
  • Eating
  • Watching

• I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Me
  • Football
  • Forget

• Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.

  

  Carl Orff
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Understand

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

  

  Wayne Swan
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Promise

• When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Why
  • Kind
  • Forget

• Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Forget

• I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Experience
  • Painting
  • Forget

• Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.

  

  John Calvin
  • Faith
  • Knowledge
  • Promise

• Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying to say in him- as you’ll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.'' - 'Fine! That’s beautiful. But I wasn’t trying to say that. We are such stuff as manure is made on, so let’s drink up and forget it. That’s more my idea.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Life
  • Sleep
  • Dreams

• People have killed only when they could not achieve their aim in other ways there is a broadened strategy, with intellectual weapons why should I demoralize the enemy by military means if I can do so better and more cheaply in other ways?

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Enemy
  • Achieve
  • Weapons

• It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Forget
  • Promise