Quotes about promise
promise bitterness evoke
There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn. Eric Hoffer
promise population action
There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.
promise
Simply put, the promises of God are not automatic; they must be acquired by faith. John Bevere
promises
This is the first salvo in what promises to be a very interesting battle,
promise students
This is not what students want, I promise you.
promise liberty new-inventions
Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried. Thomas Jefferson
promise forget busy
All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting? Tablo
promise bills able
I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise. Ron Wyden
promise deception doe
A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception. Soren Kierkegaard
promise news i-promise
Anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news... at you. Stephen Colbert
promise speech covenant
And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant. Thomas Goodwin
promise campaigns empty
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself. Thomas Frank
promise musical would-be
If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises". Ronald Reagan
promise debt trails
Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code. Robert W. Service
promise dawn nightmare
...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn. Richard Paul Evans
promise drowning blood-promise
Promises. I was drowning in promises. Richelle Mead
promise may littles
Get masters of families to do their duty, and they will not only spare you a great deal of labor, but will much further the success of your labors. You are not like to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation. Some little religion there may be, here and there; but while it is confined to single persons, and is not promoted in families, it will not prosper, nor promise much future increase. Richard Baxter
promise i-promise
I didn't do anything wrong and I promise to never do it again. Richard M. Nixon
promise finding-myself ends
But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end.. Sarah Dessen
promise wish gone
What was she to say? "The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time? Robin McKinley
promise
Go now. Alone. Or I make good on my promise. -A Sara Shepard
promise i-promise
We'll be back. I promise you that. Samuel West
promise christ curse
Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible. Walter Lang
promise
The future is as bright as the promise of God. William Carey
promise gone may
God may be a matter of indifference to the evolutionists, and a life beyond may have no charm for them, but the mass of mankind will continue to worship their creator and continue to find comfort in the promise of their Savior that he has gone to prepare a place for them. William Jennings Bryan
promise done politics
Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it". Will Rogers
promise mind victory
Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle. Zhuangzi
promise half brown
Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise. William Hague
promise religion atheism
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom. Vladimir Lenin
promise democracy phrases
Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.
promise fairytale needs
But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise won’t come true. Jostein Gaarder
promise needs made
We don't need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made. Kofi Annan
promise
Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob. Teju Cole