Promises Quotes

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When in comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion. — George Carlin
Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined… — Leland Stanford
The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results. — Edward McKendree Bounds
God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer. — Matthew Henry
Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and… — William Gurnall
God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and… — Richard Sibbes
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
... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was a man, he always performed his promises. — Zebulon Pike
Don't make promises unless you will keep them. Not plan to keep them. Will keep them. Reliability is one of the keys to any good… — Susan Ward
The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever… — Adolf Hitler
I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help. — William Booth
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to… — Andrew Jackson
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and… — Samuel Johnson
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
Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair,… — Ban Ki-moon
It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just.… — Cesar Chavez
Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come… — Joseph Wood Krutch

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