Quotes about promise
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
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
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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
promise hitting firsts
The Chancellor has delivered his first budget but it's the same old Tories ; hitting hardest at those who can least afford it and breaking their promises. This is true to form for the Tories, but it includes things that the Liberal Democrats have always fought against. Surely they cannot vote for this. Harriet Harman
promise sin remedy
Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin. Horace Bushnell
promise challenging-the-status-quo may
Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise. Ian Anderson
promise ask-me knows
Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising. George Bernard Shaw
promise show-business shows
In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises. Fred Allen
promise able frozen
With the advance of refrigeration, I hope that along with the frozen foods someday we will have frozen conversation. A person will be able to keep a frozen promise indefinitely.
promise funny-bush said
I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here. George W. Bush
promise calling found
I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible. George R. R. Martin