"Promising is the very air o' th'..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
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.
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“You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.”
“But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.”
“I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.”
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“I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent.”
“I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.”
“I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber.”