Promise Quotes
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If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
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In money, and in life, you are very often your own worst enemy. You promise yourself you're going to diet, then eat not one or two French fries but a whole plate. You decide to really commit to saving for retirement, only to wind up with a new pair of shoes in your closet.
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
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Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!
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Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
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The first sentence of a book is a 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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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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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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Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.
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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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The babies are amazing ... They begin each day all warm and sleepy, smelling of 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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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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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.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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Farewell! For in that word, that fatal word,-howe'erWe promise, hope, believe,-there breathes despair.
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
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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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Some day we’ll all be happy. I promise you. And there won’t be any more fighting.
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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.
