Promising Quotes

You should make great things, not promising great things. (Pythagoras)
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. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. View quote
Cyril Connolly
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. View quote
Paulo Coelho
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. View quote
Robertson Davies
They look quite promising in the shop, and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels sorry for them. View quote
Joyce Grenfell
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven. View quote
Charles Williams
Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Nutrition science is where surgery was in about 1650, you know, really interesting and promising, but would you want to have them operate on you yet? I don't think so. View quote
Michael Pollan
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. (Sylvia Plath)
During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into the lowest publications. ... Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests. View quote
Simone Weil
To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid its implementation would seem a dereliction. View quote
Roger Wolcott Sperry
By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end. View quote
Camille Paglia
The anarchists are not promising anything to anyone. The anarchists only want people to be conscious of their own situation and seize freedom for themselves. View quote
Maria Nikiforova
Making the future and the road to the future wealth lies in the youth of the present and future, and rebuilding the nation's institutions based on knowledgeable scientific foundations that require promising human capacities derived from college graduates. Universities are the makers of men, we are proud of their role and of the efforts of their administrators. View quote
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God's help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires. View quote
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Write a paper promising salvation, make it a 'structured' something or a 'virtual' something, or 'abstract', 'distributed' or 'higher-order' or 'applicative' and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Nothing is less promising than precociousness; the young thistle looks much more like a future tree than the young oak. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Amy Cahill didn't believe in omens. But black snow was falling, the earth was rumbling beneath her feet, her brother was meowing, and her uncle Alistair was prancing on the beach in pink pajamas. She had to admit, the signs were not promising. View quote
Peter Lerangis
What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone. View quote
Hermann Broch
Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising. View quote
Clive Granger