Promptly Quotes

should be promptly dismissed for crimes against journalism.

One ought never to turn one`s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg.

They wanted me for short relief, ... I joined them in St. Louis and they promptly lost seven in a row. I never pitched because they were never ahead.

The federal agencies did respond promptly but the direction and hierarchy were missing,

Students returned still in lock-down mode to give teachers an opportunity to take roll. Then, the school went into an abbreviated instructional schedule. We did what we were supposed to do. We went into lock-down. We promptly evacuated the building. And we took the extra step of making sure that all students were accounted for.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina`s heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage.

Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.

Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority.

At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody`s power and is not easy.

We made an isolated error, and we corrected it as promptly and forthrightly as possible. We have reviewed the miscalculation with our outside auditing firm and with our board of directors.

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.