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Promise Quotes by Jodi Picoult
- Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.
- Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.
- Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end,…
- maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but…
- Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar.…
- Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a…
- Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They…
- I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.
- There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back. You can deceive him on purpose. You can deliver him into…
- Here are the things I know for sure: When you think you’re right, you are most likely wrong. Things that break—be they bones, hearts, or…
More Promise Quotes
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. — Arthur Balfour
- At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. — Honore de Balzac
- Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests… — Karl Barth
- Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. — Bernard Baruch
- Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he… — Bob Beauprez
- Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens. — Bob Beauprez
- Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. — Ambrose Bierce
- Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. — Buffalo Bill
- Let God's promises shine on your problems. — Corrie Ten Boom
- I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain. — Conrad Black