Promise Quotes
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The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.
Moss Hart -
Opium ain’t got nothing on the promise of tomorrow turning up better than today. Snow
Catherynne M. Valente
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In systems such as contemporary society, evolution is always a promise and devolution is always a threat. No system comes with a guarantee of ongoing evolution. The challenge is real. To ignore it is to play dice with all we have. To accept it is not to play God—it is to become an instrument of whatever divine purpose infuses the universe.
Ervin Laszlo -
In the beginning, the punk scene was so full of promise. All the bands were different, and all the sounds were different. The common denominator was that it was all very young kids doing it, and doing it on their terms. But then it became, 'You should listen to this and you should wear this uniform, and you shouldn't do this or that.' It was supposed to be about not having rules, but every generation of music gets watered down.
David Vanian -
The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us all. The false grandeur and security, the unfulfilled promises and illusory power, the number of the dead and those about to die, will charge the forces of our courage and determination. The old world will die so that the new world will be born with less sacrifice and agony on the living.
Carlos Bulosan -
Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.
Samuel Rutherford -
A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.
Daniel Yankelovich -
For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our loves and friendships possible, and so very unsatisfactory. The hunger is for...nothing less than perfect communion with the...one in whom all the fragments of our scattered existence come together...we must not stifle this longing. It is a holy dissatisfaction. Such dissatisfaction is not a sickness to be healed, but the seed of a promise to be fulfilled...The only death to fear is the death of settling for something less.
Richard John Neuhaus
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I moved on with my life but I still have a big commitment to Terri. I made her a promise.
Michael Schiavo -
A promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books.…But what was love but pain?
Melissa de la Cruz -
Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future. You shall be warned of dangers and shall be guided through the whisperings of the Holy Spirit.
Boyd K. Packer -
Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.
Audrey Hepburn -
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
John Lennon The Beatles -
And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.
Ernest Hemingway
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Tell of his wondrous faithfulness, And sound his power abroad; Sing the sweet promise of his grace, And the performing God.
Isaac Watts -
I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.
Michael Caine -
Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
Seth Godin -
Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate the health care law again?!
Sean Hannity -
The Word of Wisdom does not promise you perfect health, but it teaches how to keep the body you were born with in the best condition and your mind alert to delicate spiritual promptings.
Boyd K. Packer -
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
Stanley Hauerwas
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The future is as bright as the promise of God.
William Carey -
Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
Miguel de Cervantes -
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
Ezra Pound -
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
Cato the Younger