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Richelle Mead 816
American writer 1976Related quotes
“If you promise you will get better instead of dying, I promise I will, too.”
Source: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
“I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.”
“I promise to pay you before you die - but you have to promise not to die.”
Unidentified rally, 1968
Featured in Pat Paulsen for President (1968), part 4 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gpLpP6CWvo&feature=relmfu, 06:22 ff (33:22 ff in full program)
Context: I've conducted my campaign thus far in the true American political tradition: I lied about my intention to run [... ] I have been consistently vague on all the issues [... ] Therefore I promise you all, my fellow Americans, that I will continue to make promises that I will be unable to fulfill.
“Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.”
No. 40 (January 20, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)
Context: Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is, therefore, become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Comedy album A Wild and Crazy Guy