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Always let people be surprised that you gave them more than you promised, faster than you promised, and that it was easier than you promised.


Robert J. Ringer

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PROVERB We should hold out instead of going for what was promised. More talk is better than a bad deal.
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BILLY JOEL - If I tell you, will you let met go?
- You bet, partner. [...]
- You promised!
- Nop...
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And put me through Hell!
BON JOVI Sometimes you have to go through the wilderness before you get to the Promised Land.
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FABRIZIO MOREIRA As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.
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VINSON SYNAN Anytime you are promised something huge without doing anything to qualify yourself for that is fraud...
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JOSEPH LAPID What about your
Your 10,000 promises?
That you gave to me (to me, babe)
Your 10,00...
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JULIE KAGAWA Huh? Oh you have a hidden agenda, do you?" She laughed. His straight-faced humor always surprised he...
DRU PAGLIASSOTTI I promised him!" he screamed, realizing even as he did so that his voice was laced with something wr...
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'I hav...
ISOBELLE CARMODY I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you m...
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DOUG WILLMORE I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.
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ELI SEGAL Neo-Liberalism promised us a Global Village and gave us a Potemkin Village.
DEAN CAVANAGH We promised we'd return again.
RICHARD SEIVERT All death reminds us that nothing is promised, only that life was worth it.
SHANNON L. ALDER Hope is the believe that the promised will be fulfilled.
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“You’re impo...
RICK RIORDAN surround yourself with people who know more than you until you know more than them.
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JAMES C. DOBSON I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you...
VICTOR HUGO I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones.
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FANTASIA BARRINO We were promised apartments and new furniture - including television sets and entertainment centers....
JAMES DELONG You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.
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ROBERT J. BENTLEY A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and...
ROBERT J. SAWYER We were looking at ourselves as a store rather than a brand. When you do that, you draw thick, heavy...
ROBERT J. FISHER The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is the world's greatest pure physics thinktank, ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER We absolutely do some of the best science in the world in Canada, across a broad spectrum of discipl...
ROBERT J. SAWYER All the stories we tell ourselves are wrong.
J. ROBERT LENNON In order to get people to love you, you've got to get some people to hate you
ROBERT J. BRAATHE I have no intentions of resigning.
ROBERT J. BENTLEY George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure beca...
ROBERT J. SAWYER If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll ce...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I think that a lot of people in all walks of life have the impression, of course, that, 'I speci...
ROBERT J. SHILLER A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.
ROBERT J. SAWYER We have an unwavering commitment to our social responsibility program; it's good for business, a...
ROBERT J. FISHER Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I have to uphold not only the constitution of Alabama, but I swore to uphold the Constitution of the...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY In addition to psychopaths, 'Quantum Night' is also a novel about literally thoughtless peop...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Critics of 'economic sciences' sometimes refer to the development of a 'pseudoscience...
ROBERT J. SHILLER Forth & Towne was a great test of a promising concept and an illustration of the innovative risk...
ROBERT J. FISHER A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
ROBERT J. SAWYER Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.
ROBERT J. SAWYER The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to...
ROBERT J. ALLISON To the confusion of our enemies.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains,
On the dark great sea, in the midst of...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the firs...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.
ROBERT J. SAWYER My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT