Broken Promises Quotes
366 quotes by 273 authors
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
— Hannah Arendt
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
— Abigail Adams
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At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
— Henry Adams
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
— James M. Barrie
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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
— Bernard Baruch
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
— Buffalo Bill
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
— Warren Buffett
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
— John Burroughs
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
— Albert Camus
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It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.
— Willie Aames
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they…
— Chief Joseph
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If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come…
— Helen Prejean
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Enemies' promises were made to be broken.
— Aesop
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
— Ovid
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Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
— Denis Waitley
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