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Empty Promises Quotes

Barack Obama’s campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty Picture Quote #1

Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never! Picture Quote #1

You don’t need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don’t work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don’t make good on the threats, you’re asking for worse behavior next time Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards Picture Quote #1

Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises Picture Quote #1

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise Picture Quote #1

President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all sorts to people. But those rights were empty promises, because that system did not have an independent judiciary to uphold the rule of law and enforce those rights Picture Quote #1

Resolutions are most often empty promises for those who have an abundance of dreams, but refuse to wake up and live them Picture Quote #1

Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism Picture Quote #1

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Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Barack Obama’s campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming (Empty Promises Quotes) 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 (Empty Promises Quotes) The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty (Empty Promises Quotes) Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never! (Empty Promises Quotes) You don’t need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don’t work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don’t make good on the threats, you’re asking for worse behavior next time (Empty Promises Quotes) 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. (Empty Promises Quotes) But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards. (Empty Promises Quotes) Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises (Empty Promises Quotes) If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise. (Empty Promises Quotes) President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all sorts to people. But those rights were empty promises, because that system did not have an independent judiciary to uphold the rule of law and enforce those rights. (Empty Promises Quotes) Resolutions are most often empty promises for those who have an abundance of dreams, but refuse to wake up and live them. (Empty Promises Quotes) Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism (Empty Promises Quotes) Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself (Empty Promises Quotes) 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 (Empty Promises Quotes) 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 (Empty Promises Quotes)