Promised Quotes
819 Promised quotes by 625 unique authors
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When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Though negotiations are a rough game, you should never allow them to become a dirty game. Once you've agreed to a deal, don't back out…
— Victor Kiam
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Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to…
— Allen Wheelis
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I have made a contract with my body. It has promised to accept harsh treatment from me on earth, and I have promised that it…
— Peter of Alcantara
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Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with…
— Robert Breault
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One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of…
— Sonia Delaunay
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Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.
— Lawrence Bossidy
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Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us...Prayer is simply asking…
— Gerhard Tersteegen
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Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us ... This service…
— Gerhard Tersteegen
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It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never…
— Helmut Newton
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by grace ye are saved, not of works,' but by the will of God through Jesus Christ . . . If we please Him in…
— Polycarp
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Perfection does not come in this life, but we exercise faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and keep our covenants. President Monson has promised, "Your…
— Neil L. Andersen
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
— Annie Dillard
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The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can…
— Andrew Carnegie
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This week we saw progressive business and faith leaders making strong commitments that are moving ahead of what world leaders promised today. The leaders of…
— Kumi Naidoo
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What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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All of us must walk the same strait and narrow path, know the same kind of experiences as those we would seek to lead and…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with the task of…
— Pope Paul VI
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A long time ago, there were lovers that lived on the opposite ends of a river. They promised to meet when the camellia flowers bloomed.…
— John the Apostle
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Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder…
— Leo Rosten
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And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself he…
— Paulo Coelho
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Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence…
— James Madison
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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.
— C.S. Lewis
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Most of the teams who traded for me or signed me needed me to fill a hole in the puzzle. I feel good about that.…
— Unknown Author
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Comedy comes from pain, and no one knows that better than this woman Roseanne Barr—who was molested as a child. Uch. That poor molester. Roseanne…
— Jeff Ross
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