“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said that I didn't know.”
Mark Twain
“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know."”
“He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly clean. . . not anything cleared you through the terrifying office of chance; that it is chance and not perfection that rules the world.”
Judith Guest
“There is no harm in being sometimes wrong- especially if one is promptly found out.”
John Maynard Keynes
“Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”
Winston Churchill
“A far greater factor [than abolishing poverty] is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.”
Warren E. Burger
“Intel cutting its revenue forecast will probably prompt some selling and pull the market lower.”
Yutaka Miura