Quotes about promise
promised
This is what you are promised for the day of reckoning.
promise pull
I promise you this - in office, we will pull it down. David Cameron
promise
I promise we're going to be done with 77 one of these days.
promised wife
I promised my wife this would be it. I've been working on it from 6 to 11 every night.
promised receive sure
If you've been promised a pension, we're going to make sure that you receive it.
promise prison
Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live. Jack Kerouac
promise win
We're going to win -- I promise you. E. B. White
promise break social
Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break. Bernie Sanders
promise
We want to get to him through. I'd like to get him on the podium. That's a promise I made to him. . . . I'd like to try to keep my word.
promises
Undelivered Promises and Betrayals of the Uruguay Round.
promised single
I've not promised a single person one thing. I was a commissioner for 13 ½ years. I've got a lot of friends.
promises proper reveals risks sent suspect torture treatment
These promises of proper treatment are unenforceable. Any suspect who reveals mistreatment risks being sent back to the torture chamber.
promise technology wind
The technology has not only as much promise, but even more promise than wind energy.
promise way
Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way. Judith Butler
promise
We will be better, I promise you that. Ken Hitchcock
promise
We will be better. I can promise you that.
promise rising pay
The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced Jeremy Paxman
promise
Ross got fouled, I promise you that. Oh, he got fouled, and it wasn't called.
promise schools
Bill, I know what the other schools say. If you come to UCLA, I can't promise you'll make our team, John Wooden
promise april
April is a promise of what's to come. Gladys Taber
promise wish one-thing
As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do. Georgette Heyer
promise would-be danger
How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger. Jean de La Fontaine
promise multiple
No company can promise an end date, but if you have multiple debts, the first one should be settled within a year. Jean Chatzky
promise crowds chance
Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you. Jeff Bezos
promise democracy voters
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes. George Will
promise may being-true
I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old. Elvis Costello
promise
I can't compete with making promises you can't keep. Hillary Clinton
promise purpose matter
When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem. Herbert Croly
promise determined individual
The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.
promise curiosity paradise
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. Evelyn Waugh
promise stories intention
If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story. Esther Hicks
promise treats
And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises. Ernest Hemingway
promise trying special
I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise. Etty Hillesum