Quotes about promise
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 matter
Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever. Rick Yancey
promise world break
If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?
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Some things you don't have to promise. You just do.
promise rich
Anyone can be rich in promises. Ovid
promise wardrobe-malfunctions exposing
There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that.... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off. Paul McCartney
promise telling-the-truth politician
What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises. Peter Garrett
promise rewards commandments
This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.
promise politician
Hookers have to deliver on their promise... unlike politicians. Marty Feldman
promise giants weak
Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance. Philip Massinger
promise realization haunting
The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy. Philip Yancey
promise mystery life-is
Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Mother Teresa
promise world problem
The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise. Robert Foster Bennett
promise judicial-review constitution
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left. Robert Bork
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Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise. Thornton Wilder
promise prophet messiah
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. Thomas Huxley
promise environmental doe
The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out. Walt Whitman
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
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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 i-promise
I didn't do anything wrong and I promise to never do it again. Richard M. Nixon
promise doe tomorrow
God doesn't promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity. Tony Snow
promise jehovah vices
Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but he never faithfully kept a promise. Robert Green Ingersoll
promise littles investment
I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.
promise world young
Everybody who is young is promising. The world should sue the young for breach of promise. Rocky Graziano
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.
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Words are for those with promises to keep. W. H. Auden
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