Promise Quotes
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We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.
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We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.
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We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.
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He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.
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When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.
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Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.
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One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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The babies are amazing ... They begin each day all warm and sleepy, smelling of promise.
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The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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Every morning I look in the mirror and make a promise to myself. To stop acting like this today. That Mi Soo is a good friend. That John only loves me. But it doesn't work that well. I feel like I'm going crazy if John even smiles at Mi Soo. Even when they sit across from one another! I really feel like I'm going to die.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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Some day we’ll all be happy. I promise you. And there won’t be any more fighting.
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I can promise you that the Spirit is a lot more anxious to help you than you are to be helped.
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People shouldn't be interested in me. They should be interested in me if I'm not doing what I promise.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters.
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It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that people go to see. I think it's that simple. I promise you if people were lining up around the block to see a Bible movie, they'd make Bible movies from now to the end of time.
