Promises Quotes

1151 Promises quotes by 822 unique authors

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we… — Mitt Romney
I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between… — Mitt Romney
I think there are some in the Democratic Party - not all - but I think there are some people in the Democratic Party that… — Marco Rubio
President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into… — Paul Ryan
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made… — Carl Sandburg
Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first… — Rob Sheffield
When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop. — Joe Slovo
The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn… — Charles Stanley
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. — Billy Sunday
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. — Jonathan Swift
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. — Evelyn Waugh
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. — Simone Weil
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. — Mae West
God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience. — Ellen G. White
As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord… — David Wilkerson
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
Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A… — Daniel H. Wilson
Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and… — Margaret Heffernan
That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact… — Joan Didion
Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations… — Scott Westerfeld
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place… — Joan Didion
Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises. — Spencer W. Kimball
April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too… — Barbara Kingsolver
We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true… — John Piper
The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. — Michael Chabon

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