My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. . . . How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.
There is a discrepancy of somebody going to an art dealer and promising what they'll make for the next three years. And I'm old fashioned that way; I think that every exhibition you make is supposed to put you in the world, that the next exhibition is spinning off of that. It's almost like a riff. And if you know what you're going to do for the next three years, why don't just do it the final point? You would think, in a progressive situation, that the final would be the best.
Promising is the eve of giving.
For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.
One must exploit the asynchronies that have befallen one, link them to a promising issue or domain, reframe frustrations as opportunities, and, above all, persevere.
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.
You should make great things, not promising great things.
And with each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. And then I would remember I had a wife at home who loved me, or later that my wife had left me and I was terrirfied, or again later that I had a beautiful alcoholic girlfriend who would make me happy forever. But every time I entered the place there were veiled faces promising everything and then clarifying quickly into the dull, the usual, looking up at me and making the same mistake.
I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.
A very interesting and promising cluster has formed here [in the Russian Far East ], and we would be happy if our potential investors, our counterparts from abroad, first of all those from the Asia-Pacific region, knew more about it.
He said he "admired our courage" but didn't want to see us do anything to "damage our promising futures. " He felt "proud as an American" that we had "exercised our right to peaceful free expression. " But if we did it again, he didn't "know what action the state board of education might take against individual students. " Translation: You've had your fun. Now sit down, shut up, and take the freakin' test. Or else.
Young people are threatened. . . by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot which I do not wish to untie. Men are spoilt by frankness, I believe, yet I must tell you that I love you better than I supposed I did, when I promised to love you forever. . . . I feel it thrilling through my frame, giving and promising pleasure.
The most promising evidence bearing on reincarnation seems to come from the spontaneous cases, especially among children.
Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.
But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.
Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.
A paradigm shift, where, in addition to, physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs, can be a promising way forward. This knowledge based approach will bring immense returns particularly in Rainfed and Dryland farming areas.
