A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Directors should be paid for promising impossible things.

I'm not promising to write 'JFK 2' - but one day, I might!

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

You can get people to work by using threats or by promising rewards.

The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.

The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I'm dumping all my smart phones.

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

I have done regional films before. They have a different flavour and promising future.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

I know actors with promising careers who get blown out of the business, never to return.

Everywhere you look, especially on TV, someone is promising to make you rich and famous.

As a girl, I abandoned a promising singing career due to violent harassment by Islamists.

I was a promising keeper as a kid and, at 15 and 16, was on the books of Crewe Alexandra.

I see a big, promising future for India's manufacturing and supply chain part of our company.

Telomerase Activation is the single most promising approach to reversing the effects of aging.

Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start.

Any politician promising not to raise your taxes is like a vampire promising to become a vegetarian.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

There's something very interesting about world leaders promising hope and then carrying through on that.

We have to be very realistic as a party as to what we're promising Canadians going into the 2019 election.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

That's really the nature of how cults get you - by starting slow, promising to help you realize your goals.

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.

We can no longer dwell on the divisive politics of the past but must focus on Georgia's bright and promising future.

The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.

Trump assumed office promising to 'drain the swamp' in Washington, D.C. Instead, the swamp has grown wider and deeper.

Acting has given me a successful career and I will do it whenever I'm approached for any challenging and promising role.

In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

Harnessing new communications technology offers one promising way to make public participation easier and more effective.

Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them.

It takes time, but I have a promising team of younger Ministers, and I am quite sure from amongst them, one leader will emerge.

My father tried to discourage me from going into comedy, mainly because he felt like it wasn't promising. It was pie in the sky.

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

I believe that Prime Minister Modi will respond positively to development projects for backward areas. That is why I am promising them.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Trump manipulates the fearful by promising that he will use his fraudulent deal-making prowess to protect and take care of his supporters.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

With new technologies promising endless conveniences also comes new vulnerabilities in terms of privacy and security. And nobody is immune.

If you recruit a kid, and you're promising him the world, how in the world are you going to coach him in that short a period of time to do that?

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

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