Unfulfilled Promise Quotes

In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.

We bought the son of a bitch, but he didn't stay bought.

Potential is like a summer crop. If it don't rain, it don't grow.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

The world is full of educated derelicts.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

I'm asked all the time who the next big thing is in NXT and I always say I'm not going to say because it puts too much pressure on them.

MacArthur told Truman that the ‘boys will be home by Christmas’. Truman forgot to ask, ‘which Christmas?’ They are still there today.

I think there is a huge ceiling in Derek Carr. I think he has proven that.

This dream of King’s is going to be turned into a nightmare

For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that's a tragedy to me.

We don't want to keep talking about 'potential.' That word is the most dangerous word in professional sports.

Amaravati will not be a ghost city.

I'm a fan of leaving people hungry; I don't like leaving people satisfied.

The promise to share the burden of our defense has gone unfulfilled for too many for too long, and it erodes the very foundation of NATO.

SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

This was a forced oath; the spirits do not hear such.

The dream of opportunity for all people has not come true for everyone in America, but its promise exists for all who come to our shores

For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

Latin America is very fond of the word "hope." We like to be called the "continent of hope." Candidates for deputy, senator, president, call themselves "candidates of hope." This hope is really something like a promise of heaven, an IOU whose payment is always being put off. It is put off until the next legislative campaign, until next year, until the next century.

The president of Victoria's Secret promised me a lifetime supply of Victoria's Secret products, even after I decided to leave the company. But once I left, he only let me have it for a year. So I have a bone to pick.

TCU - they told me they were going to offer me a scholarship and kind of drug it out. I told other schools I wasn't interested because I thought I was going to be there. They disappointed me and kind of hung me out to dry right before signing day.

America is the land of equal opportunity. The reality is that we are not delivering on that promise.

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.