Empty Promise Quotes

#1. Diets - the ultimate empty promise perpetuating the same cycle over and over again. We've all been victims of yo-yo dieting. We stick to some diets longer than others, but c'mon, just how much cabbage soup can a person eat?

Suzanne Somers

#2. Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs.

Michael Josephson

#3. If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

Charles Handy

#4. Talent without discipline is only an empty promise - the glitter of an unworked crystal. It is nothing of itself.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#5. In the changing of the times," Abe wrote to one of his students, "they were like autumn lightning, a thing out of season, an empty promise of rain that would fall unheeded on fields already bare.

Dave Lowry

#6. I can't explain, maybe it isn't something that needs explaining, how the sight of a broken cage just puts you up on stilts. The promise that the cage will always be empty, that its days as a jailhouse are done.

Helen Oyeyemi

#7. For a trader - hell, for any American - being empty of promise is an abomination.

Katya G. Cohen

#8. Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There must be some reason why it is mainly liberals who tend to say this, but the chief thing to note about the promise is that it is usually an empty one.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary.

Jamel Shabazz

#10. There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup.

Ted Kooser

#11. Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming ...

Charles Foster Johnson

#12. Was she strong enough to allow both of them to be themselves? Bahama had instilled in her an honoring of promises, but she could not keep her promise unless she was willing to allow Nik to be Nik, not a projection of someone who could fill in all her empty spaces, heal all her wounds.

Madeleine L'Engle

#13. Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.

Miguel De Cervantes

#14. The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.

Ulysses S. Grant

#15. Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes.

Peter The Great

#16. Time well spent is an investment of the past for a practical and bright Future.

Victor John Lao

#17. The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.

Peter Gabriel

#18. If you ask people to do things and they usually don't get around to them, stop asking yourself, "What's the matter with people these days?" Instead, ask yourself, "What's the matter with me? What am I doing or failing to do that causes people to give me empty promises?"

Ed Bliss

#19. In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

Charles Dickens

#20. GE is falling under the same cloud of the market as a whole. Investors are not focused on the positives that are occurring like corporate profitability.

James Fisher

#21. In that slowly descending darkness as the moon ascended and a gentle breeze blew, I found myself enveloped in that stillness and a strange sort of bliss. I let lay the existential dilemmas somewhere within me for the moment and allowed myself to be immersed in that beyond. Next

G S Subbu

#22. It's refreshing to see a woman who can artfully weave her individuality into an otherwise safe ensemble.

Nina Garcia

#23. She rolled over and stretched, blinking up at the blue sky. The tips of the long grasses swished gently in the breeze. The hot sun pressed down on her so that she felt hot and empty. Slowly, the meadow began to fulfill its promise.

Elizabeth George Speare

#24. I am a lover of love and I am a lover of words, and the two together spin visions of airy castles, but also may pierce the heart of hope. And so I remind you that I am a fool, a poet, and what matters is reality, not lovely words. Words are full of promise, yet empty of matter.

Waylon H. Lewis

#25. Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.

Annie Lobert

#26. Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

Vladimir Lenin

#27. The immense desert, empty as a bird's wing, inspired him with promise.

Mike Bond

#28. The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty.

Ashraf Ghani

#29. just because of its promise of unlimited possibilities technology is an empty form like the most formalistic logic and is unable to determine the content of life.that is why our time,being the most intensely technical,is also the emptiest in all human history.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#30. Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#31. MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They're just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of each other.

Hillary DePiano

#32. Look ... it's empty ... as empty as a politician's promise!

Harry Blackstone Jr.

#33. Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them.

Mike Ditka

#34. Guess there is a war on between them and us. But we never do anything about holding up our side of the war, except to keep our parade sites and our storage centers secret and to get out of bodies every time there's an air raid or the enemy fires a rocket or something.

Kurt Vonnegut

#35. All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.

Amy Dickinson