Petra Nemcova Quotes

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, 'Well if I can just do that, then everything's going to be okay.' My work differs in that I don't offer quick solutions and simple explanations.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools.

Voters never grow weary of illusory promises.

Many people would rather have fine words and false hopes than the truth which is unacceptable.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow

If you add up all the promises any politicians makes, the math doesn't work.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

I always had this impression that money bought you happiness and money solved everything, and it's the biggest lie I have ever been told.

No one really cares about you but you. They say they do, but everyone in Hollywood is a heat-seeking missile, and it's easy to go after the cute girl or guy that's new to town.

My father and I never really achieved a real relationship. We probably saw each other 20 or 25 times in our lifetime.

Donald Trump trying to do to the American voter what he did to the people that signed up for this course: He's making promises he has no intention of keeping.

Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!

You'll have pie in the sky when you die.

Her face crashes. She hasn't dealt with a single transfusion or lumbar puncture. She wasn't allowed near me for the bone-marrow transplant, but she could have been there for any number of diagnoses, and wasn't. Even her promises to visit more often have faded away with Christmas. It's her turn to taste some reality.