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Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes. -- Peter the Great
Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises. -- Teresa Heinz
If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise. -- Charles Handy
Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never! -- Cornelia Funke
During my election campaign I was not giving out empty promises, but invited every member of society to join the efforts to work for a better life in Lithuania. -- Dalia Grybauskaite
Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart. -- Scott Westerfeld
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom. -- Vladimir Lenin
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs. -- Michael Josephson
If you ask people to do things and they usually don't get around to them, stop asking yourself, "What's the matter with people these days?" Instead, ask yourself, "What's the matter with me? What am I doing or failing to do that causes people to give me empty promises?" -- Ed Bliss
Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master. -- Miguel de Cervantes
The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center. -- Norman Mailer
Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism. -- Margaret Atwood
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself. -- Thomas Frank
Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It's a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there. -- Graham Hawkes
You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
Diets - the ultimate empty promise perpetuating the same cycle over and over again. We've all been victims of yo-yo dieting. We stick to some diets longer than others, but c'mon, just how much cabbage soup can a person eat? -- Suzanne Somers
President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all sorts to people. But those rights were empty promises, because that system did not have an independent judiciary to uphold the rule of law and enforce those rights. -- John Roberts
All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled. -- Amy Dickinson
Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them. -- Mike Ditka
Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming... -- Charles Foster Johnson
But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards. -- Sherman Alexie
The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty. -- Ashraf Ghani
Resolutions are most often empty promises for those who have an abundance of dreams, but refuse to wake up and live them. -- Steve Maraboli
MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They're just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of each other. -- Hillary DePiano
Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. Itâ??s not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action. -- Annie Lobert

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