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Ferrari always tries to get the best possible drivers, and my fellow team members have always been highly promising people. — Michael Schumacher

I remember once kissing you, your face lit by northern stars. Promising to grow old with you, and now so simply breaking the promise. — Carew Papritz

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone. — Hermann Broch

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey. — Mary Astell

I'm not promising to write 'JFK 2' - but one day, I might! — Nigel Hamilton

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little. — William J. Clinton

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. — James Broughton

I am tired of hotels promising to go the extra mile only to have them refuse to go round the corner! — Richard Quest

I could make a poet out of far less promising material. I could make a poet out of two sticks and a piece of orange peel. — P.G. Wodehouse

The perfection of that silent moment was somehow better than a million mouthfulls promising forever. — Jessica Gadziala

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade. — L.M. Montgomery

I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN. — David Foster Wallace

A chill swept through the air, the sort of graveyard kiss promising bad news to follow. — Katherine McIntyre

We think it a very promising little war. A microcosm, as you might say, of world drama. — Evelyn Waugh

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists. — Crystal Gayle

Believe me; there's nothing clean, nothing healthy, nothing promising about this age of wonders - except the telling. — Henry Miller

Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising. — George Bernard Shaw

The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising. — Leonard Ravenhill

Despite the gentlemanly kiss, a ferocity burned behind his gaze promising something primal. — Katherine McIntyre

The first book I opened looked promising - Mummies and Their Secrets by Sir Lynn N. Bandage. — R.L. LaFevers

Your goddamn bloodsucking boyfriend's been promising to change you for eight years!" Jen said grimly. "Wake up and smell the plasma, Beth! — Jacqueline Carey

Sam's a - pardon my French - chicken-shit-paper-thin liar whose word is as good as a slaughterhouse bird promising golden eggs." If — Anne McAneny

Fear gripped Harry, like some old dope-pusher promising a terrible high. — Clive Barker

Don't be frightened,' he murmured into her ear. 'I will protect you.'
Lara sighed deeply. A Prince - promising to protect her. Yes please. — Lola Salt

Beware of anyone promising you help now. Inside yourself, it's only you who can help you. — Maggie Stiefvater

Exchange love for hate ... Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising. — Maya Angelou

A highly promising new artist and I look forward to seeing Natalie McCool perform at major festivals and concerts in the future — Harvey Goldsmith

The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated. — Frank Scoblete

Once Trump got his hands around this promising idea, he basically strangled it. — Joe Nocera

The most promising evidence bearing on reincarnation seems to come from the spontaneous cases, especially among children. — Ian Stevenson

They'd even met, he recommended him to his own editor at Scribner, Max Perkins, suggesting Max sign up this promising young — Olivia Laing

The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought. — Frank Barron

But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today. — Suzanne Collins

Promising is the eve of giving. — George Herbert

[B]elieving, was her own true, promising friend once more. — Natalie Babbitt

There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising. — Donald Barthelme

Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone - adults promising us their own failed future. — Jacqueline Woodson

Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty. — Jonathan Morduch

As I left, promising to mention her to my father, Olga said: Now you can play hide-and-seek in the whole
world. — J.G. Ballard

Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map. — Kent McCord

When it comes to you, against my better judgment and my will, I find myself promising things I never thought I could promise anyone. — Lilly Black

Spec = asking the world to have sex with you and promising dinner date to one lucky winner. — Jeffrey Zeldman

Where's the sense in promising to achive the achievable? — Terry Pratchett

I kind of do it in my head, then I'll try pieces of it on stage and if it looks promising, I'll put it together. — Bob Newhart

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made. — Octave Chanute

Everybody who is young is promising. The world should sue the young for breach of promise. — Rocky Graziano

Love is promising to give someone everything and not expect anything in return. — Emma Hart

a fatal recovery from a promising illness — Thomas Boston

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century. — Pierre L. Van Den Berghe

No human should mislead another by promising them something they know to be untrue. — Santosh Kalwar

In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird. — Olivia Wilde

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven. — Charles Williams

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments. — Leonardo Da Vinci

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

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion. — Erich Fromm

There's one problem with California." I wasn't eager to listen, but the sentence had a promising beginning. "It has no understanding of evil. — Pico Iyer

You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven. — Yuval Noah Harari

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic. — Pope Benedict XVI

Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks. — Helen Rowland

The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I'm dumping all my smart phones. — John McAfee

Pat Tillman (for abandoning an incredibly promising football career to give his life for his country). — Peter Boghossian

These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He nodded vigorously. Anything was better than promising to fight Janice Avery. — Katherine Paterson

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. — Sylvia Plath

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes. — George Will

Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

I was promising myself strength.

I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it. — Aspen Matis

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life. — Havelock Ellis

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected. — Clint Eastwood

Weaver always says freedom is like Sloan's Liniment, always promising more than it delivers. — Jennifer Donnelly

You can get people to work by using threats or by promising rewards. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Will the words end, I ask
whenever I remember to.
Nope, my sister says, all of five years old now,
and promising me
infinity. — Jacqueline Woodson

I'm not promising a championship. I know how hard that is to deliver. We're not ready right now. — LeBron James

S o many promising youths, and never a finished man ! — Anonymous

You should make great things, not promising great things. — Pythagoras

Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. — Ron Paul

Love could not induce us to take on the burden of propagating the species without promising us the greatest happiness we could imagine. — Alain De Botton

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. — Robertson Davies

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents. — John Lahr

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life. — Robert Byrne

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Flattery:
One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk. — Idries Shah

The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list. — M.J. Rose

...changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other. — Terrence Real

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow. — Elizabeth Smart

The Canadians have really stepped it up these Olympics. It looks very promising for Vancouver. — Cindy Klassen

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. — Paulo Coelho

As a mentor you have to learn how to tackle the past of your mentee, be able to put it to sleep and focus to the promising future of him/her. — Euginia Herlihy

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

Harnessing new communications technology offers one promising way to make public participation easier and more effective. — Peter Roskam

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us. — Joyce Meyer

God never calls His people to accomplish anything without promising to supply their every need. — Charles R. Swindoll

If [his] peace of mind depended on me promising to be a sweet and careful little girl, he'd be smart to get used to chaos. — Sharon Green

In the morning
'When the world looks promising again despite what we know about it'
... — M. John Harrison

I remember promising myself that should I live I would prove myself deserving of life. — Terry Fox

promising!) was oddly disappointing, but what happened — Robin Stevens

Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions. — Amitai Etzioni

Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising. — Cyril Connolly

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. — Oscar Ameringer