Nancy Juvonen Quotes

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Actions speak louder than words. There is a big difference between what people say and what they do. People might tell you they are excited about your new product, but when they are in a buying situation their behaviour might be totally different.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

It is always best and safest to count on nothing from America but words.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

If he doesn't follow through with actions, he's either selfish or a liar. Neither makes him sound like The One, does it?

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.

You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools.

To all who leaned upon Mr. Gladstone, who trusted him, and hoped for something from him—chips, nothing but chips—hard, dry, unnourishing, indigestible chips.

I haven't been in Washington long, but I have learned that it is a place filled with people who say one thing to get elected and do the opposite once they get there.

In life, unfortunately, I've had multiple experiences where people that I thought I could depend on have switched up, or I've caught them in lies, and their true colours have shown.

The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

I can't compete with making promises you can't keep.

Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.