A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
Robert Byrne
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
Gertrude Stein
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
Havelock Ellis
Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.
Alex Lifeson
Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.
Anatoly Karpov
For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.
Austan Goolsbee
For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.
Paul Martin
I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in their way.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.
Sarah Palin
I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.
Tom Allen
I remember years ago being on the set of 'Dreamcatcher' and not only did I have such great admiration for Morgan Freeman and was just thrilled to be around him, I was struck by the fact that he seemed to be having perhaps more fun than I was at his job. And I thought, 'Well, that's very promising.'
Timothy Olyphant
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E. B. White
If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
Mary Astell
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo Coelho
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
Lincoln Kirstein
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
In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.
Charles Edison
It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.
Crystal Gayle
Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.
Josefa Iloilo
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