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

• Unfortunately, or perhaps it is fortunate that I have always been forced to stand on my acting ability. I haven't a personality such as Jack Gilbert's, for instance, that attracts women and makes them like me for myself. When I am on the screen I must make them forget me entirely and think only of my acting.

  

  William Powell
  • Thinking
  • Personality
  • Acting

• I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me. I have to remember who helped me when I needed help. The people of Jamaica helped me. I can't forget that. I would be ungrateful if I forgot.

  

  Michael Lee-Chin
  • People
  • Remember
  • Helping

• Millions of Indians are brimming with energy.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Energy
  • Millions
  • Indians

• Am I good enough to be No. 1? Sure, but who's gonna break Tiger's legs? I want to be the best. Can I? Oh, believe me, I will be trying. Hard. You grow up in Colombia, and everything is limited. Then, I come here, and you have everything. A trainer, nutritionist, coach. I'm very lucky. Many doors open, and I have a path to take.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• Sometimes you need to speak up about what you're standing for.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Up

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

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Forget
  • Promise