Unenforceable Promise Quotes & Sayings

When I rule the world," screamed the Bogey, "all antiques will be destroyed! Antiques will be things of the past! — Mark Gorton

We believe the explanation we hear last. It's one of the ways in which narrative influences our perception of truth. We crave finality, and end to interpretation, not seeing that this too, the tying up of all loose ends in the last chapter, is only a storytelling ruse. The device runs contrary to experience, wouldn't you say? Time never simplifies - it unravels and complicates. Guilty parties show up everywhere. The plot does nothing but thicken. — Michelle De Kretser

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing. — Judith Rossner

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought. — Josiah Royce

In the 1991 movie City Slickers, Jack Palance gives Billy Crystal some profoundly simple advice. When Crystal asks him the secret of life, Palance holds up a forefinger, answers with a single word: "One."

Choose one thing. Do it to the best of your ability. Let it go. Pick something else. Repeat endlessly. — Lionel Fisher

He was already fading. I knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much I tried to cling onto his memory. — Caroline Green

These people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur naturally. — Rush Limbaugh