Breaking promises Quote by Robert Bolt Download Open image “When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.” — Robert Bolt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Breaking promises Broken promises Hands Keeping promises Kept promises Men Oath Seasons Self Water
When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“In any case how many took the oath and are now licking the toes of the whiteman?No, you take an oath to confirm a… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes. — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
“An oath is a frightening thing when you are prepared to keep it, and I felt it tightening around my soul even as I… — Rob S. Rice Copy Share Image
When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
An oath is a promise-and a promise can be made regardless of feeling. — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice… — Robert Bolt Copy Share
“My master Thomas More would give anything to anyone. Some say that’s good and some say that’s bad, but I say he can’t help… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
“More Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? Roper I’d cut down every law in England to do that! More (roused and excited) Oh? (Advances on Roper.) And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being… — Robert Bolt Copy Share
“Have patience, Margaret, and trouble not thyself. Death comes for us all; even at our birth—death does but stand aside a little. And every… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
“The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.” — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
“The currents and eddies of right and wrong, which you find such plain sailing, I can't navigate. I'm no voyager. But in the thickets of the law, oh, there I'm a forester. I doubt if there's a man alive who could follow me there ... ...when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you-where would you… — Robert Bolt Copy Share
“RICH I’m lamenting. I’ve lost my innocence. CROMWELL You lost that some time ago. If you’ve only just noticed, it can’t have been very… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But, if it is flat, will… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken.… — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities. — Jared Polis Copy Share Image
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My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing. — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them. — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, there’s nothing wrong with breaking promises, though. You can’t go through life without breaking promises. You need to break a few rules as… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image