Promise Quotes
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As elected leaders, we must each recommit ourselves to work together toward putting our country on a prosperous, sustainable path and restoring America's promise as a land of opportunity.
Martha Roby -
Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.
Douglas Wilder
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What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.
David Graeber -
I promise you... nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.
Arvind Gupta -
Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.
Rachel Caine -
What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.
Brad Henry -
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their 'Giving Pledge,' where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they die. My Social Security Pledge is better - to give money to good causes when you are alive. Besides, more Americans can participate.
Mark Skousen -
We're underscoring to everybody the promise at the heart of the Affordable Care Act, which is quality, affordable health care coverage available in a transparent marketplace for the first time ever.
Denis McDonough
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Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.
William Hague -
This country was founded on a promise of equal rights for all, and we have always managed to move closer to that promise, little by little, one day at a time. It may not be easy - but we'll get there together.
Loretta Lynch -
You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.
Rand Paul -
Come back, come back, back to Jamaica Don't you know we made a big mistaika We would be so sad if you told us goodbye And we promise not to shoot you out of the sky!
Jimmy Buffett -
Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to remember and live by their word.
Lewis B. Smedes -
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A. A. Milne
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I say to people that Los Angeles is a city of America's hope and its promise. It's a city where we come from every corner of the Earth here to make the American dream happen.
Antonio Villaraigosa -
I've conducted my campaign thus far in the true American political tradition: I lied about my intention to run ... I have been consistently vague on all the issues ... Therefore I promise you all, my fellow Americans, that I will continue to make promises that I will be unable to fulfill.
Pat Paulsen -
The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
Wendy Kopp -
An active faith can give thanks for a promise even though it be not yet performed, knowing that God's bonds are as good as ready money.
Matthew Henry -
I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.
Marion Barry -
I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.
Jonathan Kozol
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It's very sad that Tanzania is a poor football country. If elected, I promise to put this country on the world football map. I will make sure we produce our own Okochas, El Hadji Dioufs and Zinedine Zidanes here.
Jakaya Kikwete -
I have appointed you his friend, the sculptor Francis Chantry one of my executors. Will you promise to see me rolled up in it in Turner's painting 'Carthage'? ('Yes', responded his friend 'and I promise you also that, as soon as you are buried, I will see you taken up and unrolled.'
J. M. W. Turner -
The promise had not failed her. . . . She had won everything from life, for she had given the world a master. Words seemed to speak themselves in her ear. . . . 'Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.'
John Buchan -
She went back to Shane and settles in on his lap again, arm around his neck. His circled her waist. "I thought you had to go," he said. "And don't think i didn't see you kissing on my best friend." "He deserved it." "Yeah. Maybe i ought to kiss him, too." Michael, on his way out, didn't bother to turn around for that one. "Oh sure, you always promise.
Rachel Caine