Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, "Oh I'd love to work together," and sometimes you never hear from them again.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
All men prefer a false promise to a flat refusal.
What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.
If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things until your nerves unfold and you can finally put up your feet. But it can all be a lie. There are no guarantees, even when people mean what they say at the time. People change their minds. People die. And the hurt is as real as a baseball bat.
Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.
You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.
Everyone who ever trusted Washington has been betrayed. Possibly there is an exception somewhere, but the betrayals are vast and are sufficient in number to define Washington as the least trusted entity on the earth.
Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.
This is an administration that has gotten 600 Americans killed by not telling the truth. I don’t see why anyone would believe any of the political ads.
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.
But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.
The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.
I'm surprised at people who have a passion for Mitt Romney, because he's taken every position there is. I would cast this guy as the president in a heartbeat... but I just cannot believe a word he says.
In my world, I don't believe in forever promises. I don't think it's realistic.
Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
Better a broken promise than none at all.
We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some ideals, but we also need to protect ourselves from the miscalculations and misadventures of visionaries.
It is always best and safest to count on nothing from America but words.
