Promising Quotes

• The evening was still warm enough for shirtsleeves, and the city was clinging to summer like a wannabe trophy wife to a promising center forward.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • City
  • Wife
  • Promising

• We Filipinos are the most promising people in the world. We have unheard-of-possibilities. There have never been a people similarly situated. Here we are in the Orient with our Oriental thoughts and sentiments, but living amid a civilization more Western than was ever known in The East. The Philippines is the only country where East meets West. The Filipino is a true cosmopolitan. From him the world may expect something new and distinctive.

  

  Epifanio de los Santos
  • Civilization
  • Possibilities
  • Sentiments

• Telomerase Activation is the single most promising approach to reversing the effects of aging.

  

  Michael Fossel
  • Effects
  • Promising
  • Activation

• So you're stuck. Every time your madman starts to write, your judge pounces on him... So start by promising your judge that you'll get around to asking his opinion, but not now. And then let the madman energy flow... Save details for the judge.

  

  Betty Sue Flowers
  • Energy
  • Judge
  • Madman

• When one is possessed with doubt, that though he call upon the Lord he cannot be heard, and that God has turned him heart from him, and is angry ... he must arm himself with God's Word, promising to hear him.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Doubt
  • Angry
  • Lord

• Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Quality
  • Violence
  • Amusements

• I mean, okay, let's say we're all going to get better. Let's just pretend we will. Fine. Where are we going to go after we get better? What are we going to do with all of our newfound healthy behaviors? Back out into the world that screwed us up and screwed us over. This does not sound promising.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Pretend
  • Behaviors
  • Promising

• I know actors with promising careers who get blown out of the business, never to return.

  

  Everett McGill
  • Business
  • Actors
  • Blown

• And despite promising “everything I’ve got,” President Obama either did not know how, or chose not, to use the persuasive powers of the presidency, à la Lyndon Baines Johnson, to force them to act.

  

  Bill Press
  • Force
  • President Obama
  • Presidency

• You should make great things, not promising great things.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Great
  • Things
  • Promising

• One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin, or eat cookies, then doing it. It's a pleasure that can be repeated daily.

  

  Amanda Filipacchi
  • Myself
  • Pleasure
  • Promising

• The demographics long term are extremely promising. All the major industrialized nations are entering their highest user years for health care and medical devices are on the forefront of that.

  

  Bob Higgins
  • Health
  • Devices
  • Demographics

• For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.

  

  Paul Martin
  • Government
  • Afford
  • Promising

• Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Caring
  • Cruel
  • Promising

• I cried and cried, as if I had carelessly lost somewhere the most promising part of myself.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Lost
  • Cried
  • Promising