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The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation. – Raoul Vaneigem	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. -- Speaking Of Winston Churchill – Arthur Balfour	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Every objet in the world promises satisfaction, but it never gives satisfaction -it only promises. – Swami Krishnananda	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. – Denis Waitley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. – Edgar Watson Howe	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. – Michelangelo	added by anonymous 10 years ago
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. – John Burroughs	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality. – Harold Geneen	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality. – Harold Geneen	added by anonymous 10 years ago
America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them. – Archibald MacLeish	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them. – John F. Kennedy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing. – Edmund Burke	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend. – Quentin Crisp	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. – Evelyn Waugh	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Some promises are better left unsaid – Ashlee Simpson, In her album Autobiography.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He that promises most will perform least. – Gaelic Proverb	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. – Thomas Fuller	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. – Friedrich Nietzsche	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. – Peter Drucker	added by anonymous 14 years ago
My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth. – Richard Milhous Nixon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep. – Robert Frost	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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