mises Quotes and Quotations
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mises Quotes and Quotations
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I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. Arthur Balfour | top
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I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans. Mikhail Baryshnikov | top
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When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once? Eva Braun | top
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. Edmund Burke | top
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You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own. Mark Caine | top
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Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. John Cheever | top
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I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service. Charles Edison | top
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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 | top
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Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better. Morgan Freeman | top
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What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises. Peter Garrett | top
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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality. Harold S. Geneen | top
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The future is a bright as the promises of God. Adoniram Judson | top
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. Carl Jung | top
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Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms. Mark Kennedy | top
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It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable. Jim Leach | top
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Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology. Arthur Levitt | top
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Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express. Leo Ornstein | top
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Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons. Helen Prejean | top
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. Ayn Rand | top
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises. Irwin Shaw | top
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What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it. David Simon | top
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Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire. Leland Stanford | top
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with. Garry Trudeau | top
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We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years, but I don't care anymore now. Markus Wolf | top
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. Fareed Zakaria | top
