Empty Promises Quotes

• Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.

  Teresa Heinz

  Real, Ideas, Political

  "Teresa Heinz" by Julia Turner, www.slate.com. December 11, 2003.

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• 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

  Sex, Self Esteem, Names

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• 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

  Promise, Religion, Atheism

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• Allí estábamos, niños dementes que se paseaban con ropas que nadie había llevado nunca, hablando como nadie había hablado jamás, jurando amor con pelucas y coplas rimadas, matándonos unos a otros con espadas de madera, lanzando huecas protestas de fe tras vacías promesas de venganza, y cada gesto, cada pose, desvaneciéndose en el delgado aire despoblado. Rescatamos nuestra dignidad a las nubes, y los pájaros incomprendidos escucharon. ¡¿No lo ves?! Somos actores, ¡lo contrario de las personas!

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Men, Clouds

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.63, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  Charles Handy

  Mean, Promise, Progress

  Charles B. Handy (1995). “The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future”, Random House Business Books

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

  Pedro el Grande

  Military, Soldier, Promise

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• Durante mi campaña electoral no hice promesas vacías, sino que invité a todos los miembros de la sociedad a unirse a los esfuerzos para trabajar por una vida mejor en Lituania.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Giving, Effort, Promise

  Fuente: www.glamour.com

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• La esperanza nos impulsa a inventar nuevas soluciones para viejos problemas, que a su vez crean problemas cada vez más peligrosos. La esperanza elige al político con la mayor promesa vacía; y como sabe cualquier corredor de bolsa o vendedor de lotería, la mayoría de nosotros aceptamos una pequeña esperanza antes que una frugalidad prudente y predecible. La esperanza, como la codicia, alimenta el motor del capitalismo.

  Margaret Atwood

  Codicia, Promesa, Combustible

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• ¡Malditos, malditos, desalmados [libros]! Llenos de promesas vacías, llenos de falsos señuelos, siempre dándote hambre, nunca satisfaciéndote, ¡nunca!

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Heartless, Promise

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.703, Scholastic Inc.

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• Como don Quijote de la Mancha es un loco y un insensato, y como Sancho Panza, su escudero, lo sabe, y, no obstante, le sirve y le sigue, y se aferra a sus vacías promesas, no cabe duda de que es más loco y más insensato que su amo.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Locura, Duda, Promesa

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1950). "Las aventuras de Don Quijote", Penguin Classics

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• The fact is that a "minor exorcism" takes place in every Baptism and Confirmation ceremony when we renounce Satan and all his works and empty promises. This prayer service will be along those lines. I'm not saying that anyone involved in the redefinition of marriage is possessed by the devil, which, if that were the case, would require the remedy of a "Major Exorcism," but all of us are certainly subject to the devil's evil influences and in need of protection and deliverance from evil.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Prayer, Evil, Baptism

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• The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center.

  Norman Mailer

  Promise, Guilt, Nausea

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• 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

  People, Giving, Promise

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• Bopha, Sandy, floods in Pakistan, droughts in China… How many reports from the likes of the World Bank, NASA and the International Energy Agency will it take? How many preventable catastrophes until our leaders realize that climate change will not be solved by nice speeches and empty promises? Countries like Canada and the U.S. have promised to reduce their greenhouse gas pollution and provide adequate financial support for developing countries, they have so far failed on both counts.

  Steven Guilbeault

  Country, Nice, Agency

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• Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever, flatter with vows of only me. But are they empty promises? I stare into his eyes, as into a crystal ball, but I cannot find forever, only movies of yesterday, a sketchbook of today, dreams of a shared tomorrow. His eyes whisper secrets. But are they truths or fairy tales? I wonder if even he knows.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Sueño, Mentira, Ojo

  Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Dream, Fall, Cutting

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