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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Robert Byrne

Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.

Leonardo da Vinci

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

Cyril Connolly

We're still learning on the job. We need to hone our skills a little more to take it to the next level. We do have some promising athletes here and we are thinking we are improved.

Barry Phillips

Gov. Schwarzenegger has done the right thing in promising to veto this illegal bill. It's evidence that CWA of California and other pro-family groups got their message through to him: 'We don't want counterfeit marriage,'.

Robert Knight

He is a great talent with special qualities, a very promising central defender who possesses a good mentality and who will further enhance our growing squad.

Frank Arnesen

NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The contractors are guilty of promising the moon and not delivering. And Congress is guilty for failing to oversee it from beginning to end.

Matthew Aid

We came here hoping he might show some ability. We thought he was promising and he will definitely come on for the run.

Simon Crisford

It would have to be traditional. One of the points that a number of people raise is how can anyone go around the state promising to cut different programs when they're getting their million dollars upfront for their campaign. There is an intellectual disconnect to that.

David Emery

I think what they're doing is promising us what they can deliver. The question in February will be, 'can they deliver a little more than that?

Stephen Kamman

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

My expectations are really great this time because the buyers list is extremely promising. So I think the graph, as usual, will go higher and will go this time also.

Leena Singh

Patients with this disease face a desperate situation for which we really lack any promising approaches.

John Kirkwood

It's promising. I'm determined to stay focused and positive.

Sharon Hill

We must take more time for promising young conductors. The famous conductors have no time for teaching, so I try to persuade my colleagues to find time.

Christoph Eschenbach

We're looking for a subset of the most promising ones.

David G. Dye

It's just unbelievable that a talent so young and so promising is gone.

Tom Joyner

In every study we've done, fuel cells surface as the most promising long-term pathway for the industry -- even if you use fossil fuels, like natural gas, as the source of hydrogen.

Larry Burns

Other than that inning, we didn't play too badly. I thought the first six innings were very promising for us. Billy Darryl Grant pitched well again and we got an opportunity to face three Dunbar pitchers who would be among the best in our region.

Chad Spalding

I place more emphasis on jobs numbers than on confidence surveys in estimating consumers' attitudes. And that has not looked promising.

Avery Shenfeld

Body & Soul provides MSO with the opportunity to both enter a new, promising market and to launch 'natural living' as a new 'omni' lifestyle category and brand for the company.

Sharon Patrick

The fundamentals for these kind of stocks are very promising with the healthy economic growth prospects.

Ferdi Heyneke

Rob Schilling was the primary advocate for an elected school board for years. That's a feather in his cap. But whether or not that's going to make anybody vote for him, I don't know. It's something that he's done, not something that he's promising to do. So I don't know that it's going to make a difference.

Waldo Jaquith

We have no aversion to peer-to-peer technology. For us, it is in some respects kind of a promising delivery method. We obviously have issues with its illegal uses, but to the extent that the use of the technology can be legitimized, we're all for it.

Darcy Antonellis

Patrick and I are feeling very good about this team. We saw some promising things in our first two scrimmages.

Bill Hawkey

Really, what we're trying to do is show short films that haven't had any exposure from directors who are doing promising work.

Josh Weinberg

If you look at statistics about their economic prospects, it's not really as promising. Yet personally, they are optimistic.

Jean Johnson

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.

Lincoln Kirstein

The numbers are pretty good and that's promising. We had a pretty good group of freshmen come in this year. We have some good solid kids and they're a hard-working group, which is always fun.

Peggy Cox

Because we don't yet know for sure how the animal data will correlate to human protection, we believe it is essential to move forward as quickly as possible to evaluate both of these extremely promising interventions.

Terry Butler

It's a promising start. The committee is striking a cooperative tone. We hope it continues.

Shareese Deleaver

This is a very potent vaccine. The results of this animal trial are very promising.

Dr Andrea Gambotto

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.

Paul Martin

Promising to act urgently in 2004, announcing a new system 20 months later and finally having it up and running in 2010 is just not good enough and will not calm the fears of many parents.

David Willetts

It's a good, promising start.

Frank Gehrke

He was supremely confident that he was going to win his appeal in the 6th Circuit and it looked very promising.

Philip Shanks

We believe it's a very promising way to leverage the research and development facilities that are located in Oregon and that can work on these projects.

Tom Potiowsky

The results have been promising.

Michael Feeney

In the laboratory, our researchers have been very impressed with the ability of these extracts to slow the growth of prostate cancer cells and interfere with the cancer cell cycle, ... promising anti-prostate cancer activity.

Aaron Katz

They lost what many would consider their most promising candidate, because he is the one with money. I think there is a loss of momentum for the Democrats here.

Bob Loevy

Geech was very influential in the middle of my career, at a time when many promising scrum halves can falter in their development.

Matt Dawson

It looks promising, but we will do a thorough review to determine the merits of the proposal. The governor said, 'The devil is in the details,' which he's learned especially with Scripps, so we'll do a very thorough review of it.

Russell Schweiss

On2 Technologies is a technology company with a promising future. I am pleased to be tasked with bringing in a new leader who can help On2 realize its potential.

Umesh Ramakrishnan

Very promising. I'm very nervous about it. Excited about it. Scared. But I know it's going to do okay.

Darlene Kimball

He is a promising player and I think he will be one of Africa's best players in the near future.

Ratomir Dujkovic

This new technology is very promising.

Peter Cooper

The Gore approach to budget surpluses is much more prudent; the Bush approach to structural reforms of the entitlement programs is more promising. They have set up a good dichotomy that people can look at.

Robert Bixby

Promising authors in a range of fields who share Studs' fascination with everyday life in America.

Studs Terkel

The incidents taped by our cameraman are extremely troubling, ... We are heartened that the police department is taking them seriously and promising a thorough investigation.

Mike Silverman

There are promising alternatives. But there need to be integrated marketing efforts, (instead of) requiring the customer to put the package together.

Nitin Gupta

We haven't even started throwing breaking balls yet and there's a tremendous amount of potential there. To see the aptitude out of him right away is very promising.

Mike Butcher

It's still debatable how great his talent is. He was very promising, but it's never been fulfilled. All he's done is frustrate people.

Paul Rees

As with anything else that they would invest into, we would hopefully be promising a rate of return on the investment that they would be making into their city, ... Their investment is one in the future of the city that will pay dividends for years to come.

John Elam

I'm getting lots of inquiries. It is looking very promising. I'm hoping Opelousas is ready for a change.

Billy Fontenot

Statistically what stands out the most from our play today is that we did not concede in the two games. Our defense was solid today and looked very promising.

Richie Grant

We had a very good freshmen/sophomore game. They looked pretty promising and I expect that to continue throughout the season.

Gene Engelkes

Patricia Hewitt is promising the world, and raising expectations without explaining how these promises will be turned into reality.

Steve Webb

Our outlook for this year is promising. We have a lot of girls ready to step up and make significant contributions.

Peter Raak

It's very promising. We're looking very tough for the years to come.

John Belyea

It has a very promising future for the public use.

Su Guangda

Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.

Josefa Iloilo

The response to the competition was excellent. At the meeting we will discuss the different methods used, and identify the ones that have proven the most promising.

Dario Izzo

We have a promising project, but nothing of the Earth-shattering nature that people are conjuring up.

Dean Kamen

She's definitely stronger than she was last year, some of her pitches are moving a lot better and she's stronger. The second half of the year, everyone should be healthy, hopefully, so if I can get one more pitcher (back), things look promising.

Tom Moran

We are seeing promising signs for upcoming revenue growth.

Bill Aylesworth

Results from the studies conducted to date are very promising.

Peter Steiner

A promising career can be cut short, ... The knee is the number one body part injured in football and a single injury can cost a scholarship or end a career.

Michael Austin

We believe projects in Australia and New Zealand are promising because the two countries are in Free Trade Agreement talks with China.

Diao Chunhe

He screwed up, and both [former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director] Michael Brown and [Homeland Security Secretary] Michael Chertoff really screwed up, so taxpayers are going to get the bill. Bush is overcompensating by promising the moon because his administration screwed up. Politics is driving policy.

Chris Edwards

It was a fabulous game, I'm very proud of this team. Individually and collectively we overcame some adversity tonight because there were times that it didn't look too promising.

Mark Aronson

We were about as ready and focused as we've ever been. The first 20 minutes were really intense and that was promising to see because we've been having problems with lulls in the first half all season.

Jude Temple

Donna's a switch-hitting utility player - she's just very quick, intense and smart. She's very promising.

Lori Raschilla

The group has a promising outlook for 2006 and the medium term.

Gerard Mestrallet

We will focus our organization around our two most promising opportunities ? flash memory devices and PC processors.

Jerry Sanders

He was our punter. And had a real promising future.

Danny Hale

Japan's growth prospects look more promising and we are on the threshold of an end to deflation. Yields are set to increase.

Masuhisa Kobayashi

Syria is looking for more time. It is promising cooperation on a broad scale but has launched diplomatic contacts to try to slow things down.

Joshua Landis

We are very deeply affected by the loss of one of our best students. Losing one of the most promising students is devastating.

Jeremy Travis

Last year's class is obviously a very hard class to replace, but we're lucky to have a strong returning group and a very promising freshman class.

Ariel Samuelson

The further development of this promising E. Coli vaccine is warranted and should be pursued.

A. Louis Bourgeois

The demographics long term are extremely promising. All the major industrialized nations are entering their highest user years for health care and medical devices are on the forefront of that.

Bob Higgins

For the quarter, the first numbers we have are promising.

Guillermo Ortiz

This agreement heralds a new and promising era in aviation relations.

Gerald Greenwald

The greenery, new lights, architecture and promising stores will all be a nice upgrade for the community.

Angel Hernandez

It doesn't look promising for a wet spring at this point.

Jeff Colton

Things don't look promising. The outlooks suggest it will be dry over the next three months. ... It looks like we could have a very bad drought summer.

Ryan Boyles

The textiles sector looks promising and glamorous now, so there is a lot of investor interest, both locally and from overseas.

Pradeep Bhandari

I think that we have a pretty good hitting team. We have a good number of contact hitters and a few power hitters. We put the ball in play, so we should do okay offensively. I think we should be a pretty solid team ? it looks promising.

John Demartini

I always think of how promising it was when me and Doc came up.

Darryl Strawberry

The first weekend was a solid and promising start.

John O'neill

It's one of the more promising avenues of e-commerce. The right balance of cost and service can work well.

Jim Carroll

The future in (agricultural) bio-tech is extremely promising for the south and east part of Arkansas. Paper mills (that are failing economically) have new markets for making ethanol from wood products.

Brad Greenway

I don't think it's promising.

Jim Gilmore

When we needed a long extension on the Canadarm 1 in order to be able to inspect the outside plus sensors on the end, NASA . . . looked through the whole world for who had the best capability and the most promising ability to build something and Canada won.

Chris Hadfield

We certainly don't need to get in a position where we have created some expectation that three or four years from now we can't meet. Promising a full scholarship at this early stage is not a good idea.

David Fowler

Without faith, hope and trust, there is no promise for the future, and without a promising future, life has no direction, no meaning and no justification.

Adlin Sinclair

It will take a lot of persuasion ... that's why I am not promising a miracle at all. We should be prepared for any eventuality because these people will cling to these hostages tooth and nail, I'm sure.

Nur Misuari

The field is littered with things that looked incredibly promising but, when exposed to harsh light of clinical trials, failed.

David Magnus

Hillary always had a mind of her own, ... Hillary had a passion for life. Hillary's future was very promising. It was almost a sure thing - until May 16, 2004.

Janet Baker

They've been promising to change the rules for two years, and even if they do make changes now, they'll be cosmetic.

Donato Masciandaro

A combination of factors -- excellent housing affordability conditions and a strong desire by consumers to buy -- are keeping the market incredibly strong, ... The months ahead look very promising.

Chris Millette

While we should be modest in claiming our work will lead to new chemoprevention advances in the coming years, we have promising leads from the laboratory that will enable us to conduct even better and more informative trials in the future.

Bernard Levin

We don't expect a shortage. We have everyone producing their vaccine. We don't expect it, but we're monitoring it very closely. The overall picture looks very promising.

Lola Russell

They're promising very good numbers that they have a better-than-even shot to obtain. The patriotic swell of the country I think will help the numbers.

Andrew Donchin

I think the results are excellent and promising.

Frank Pugh

It's really an impressive presentation they're looking at. The possibility of it being a building that could host an event for us in the future seems promising. It'll be fun to see that building take shape.

Greg Shaheen

We're gonna keep at it. It's another one that's disappointing, but there were positives that came out of it, like that stretch of (five) minutes where we outscored them 13-0. That's promising.

Kurt Cunningham

I would like to thank George Heller and his team for establishing a great foundation on which we can build a very promising future for HBC.

Jerry Zucker

I'm not promising a state championship, but we should go far.

James Mason

Our approach of plug-and-play XML has been applied to medical resources like drug information, clinical guidelines, and medical classification systems with promising results.

Ralf Schweiger

That's been an area of a lot of research, ... promising technologies.

Jesse Goodman

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

It's a big blow to us as a team and obviously to James personally. It's an extremely disappointing thing to happen to a young man with such a promising career.

Greg Cooper

It doesn't look promising at this point.

Tim Brooks

There's been some major movement over the last few days, and it's looking promising. We're all very close.

Brad Garrett

What's so promising about this is that we have all recognized as individual organizations that we can't do this alone.

Bret Bicoy

We're very young, but at the same time, things look very promising. As soon as our finishers really start finishing with consistency, things will be great for Michigan field hockey.

Nancy Cox

All they've been doing is promising. Nothing is happening.

Betty Miller

It's a promising first step. We'll see what happens as it moves through the courts.

Bill Poehler

The outlook in the UK is promising, particularly if there is an uplift in the housing market.

Ben Gunn

With Al Golden, we now have the final piece in place for the rebuilding of the Temple football program. We are looking forward to providing our alums and Philadelphia college football fans a bright and promising future _ the Golden Era of Temple Football.

Bill Bradshaw

If it is passed, the legislation is meant to ensure that schools are doing what they are promising, and that student-athletes are graduating from college with meaningful degrees. That's always the objective.

Kent Barrett

The manufacturing surveys from September confirm that there has been no broad-based deterioration in activity due to the energy price spike in the aftermath of Katrina. This is quite promising for the growth outlook.

Haseeb Ahmed

Last week's action was promising, but it is still too early to call for a bullish turnaround in the broader market.

Katie Townshend

The relationships with your customers are important. You have to be able to deliver what you're promising to your customers. We are able to do that.

Jeremy Gorman

Over 100 cities in China have more than 1 million people. If even a small percentage of these people are able to purchase home furnishings, it would be really promising.

Anna Kalifa

We are trying to grow the international side as fast as possible and this side is looking very promising.

Gareth Davies

We knew we'd have a tough season (last year), but we knew the future would be promising.

Mark Shields

A lot of things have changed since that task force made its recommendation. In the current climate, the applications of this technology for the Drug Enforcement Administration seem more promising than the applications for the development of a drug-free industrial hemp plant.

George Weiblen

There have been companies promising consumers they can earn $500 a month or earn free TVs.

Mark Michelson

The extension of the IBM, Sony and Toshiba relationship to fundamental research is extremely promising.

Kenshi Manabe

There is still some assessment. Things look promising so far with respect to transfer. We will be getting the final numbers tonight.

Kelly Beck

We see a promising pipeline taking shape - one of the most promising pipelines in our company's history.

Peter Dolan

Merck is pleased that it has the opportunity to develop what appears to be a very promising treatment for NSCLC, which is one of the most prevalent and deadly of all cancers. We believe this new agreement is not only beneficial for both companies but also for patients.

Elmar Schnee

We think this is extraordinarily promising. We think that there are a number of patients who would benefit from tissue-engineered vessels.

Elizabeth Nabel

There is now a lot more confidence in the European economy. We've had exports expanding for a while, but now we have an expansion in the domestic economy which is promising for the outlook.

Ed Teather

Conditions still look promising for Thursday's launch.

Ed Priselac

The Boeing deal just made is an important step for Chinese and American companies to introduce new model aircraft, and represents a promising future in bilateral economic and trade cooperation.

Zhang Yansheng