Promontory's Quotes

#1. I am pleased to be part of Promontory's steady efforts to assist banks and other financial firms in meeting legal and regulatory obligations and challenges.

Laurence D. Fink

#2. It could just be a shift on the axis.

Bill Cassidy

#3. The highest function of humanity is belief, that activity of spirit that proceeds upon the pathway of reason, until it comes to some great promontory, and then spreads its wings, and upon the basis of its earlier journeying, takes eternity into its grasp.

G. Campbell Morgan

#4. exceeded every expectation. It was built on a wide promontory that

Joe Abercrombie

#5. The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.

William Alexander

#6. High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.

Douglas Adams

#7. Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of O no woman to my knowledge had said it.

Anne Desclos

#8. In my dream, in my last morning-dream, I stood today on a promontory - beyond the world; I held a pair of scales, and weighed the world.
Alas, that the rosy dawn came too early to me: she glowed me awake, the jealous one! Jealous is she always of the glows of my morning-dream.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

William Hazlitt

#10. Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Victor Hugo

#11. I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
That the rude sea grew civil at her song;
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
To hear the sea-maid's music.

William Shakespeare

#12. I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

Diana Vreeland

#13. See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Socrates

#14. St Michael's RC secondary sat on a promontory overlooking the town of Auchenlea. The choice of site was an indirect consequence of a past mistake in vocational guidance, leading someone who had a pathological hatred of children into town planning, rather than the more traditional field of teaching.

Christopher Brookmyre

#15. I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

Zhang Ziyi