Promises Quotes
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I keep my campaign promises, but I never promised to wear stockings.
Ella T. Grasso -
...Promises are more dangerous then secrets.
Aimee Friedman
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Don't hit other people, don't take their stuff and keep your promises.
David Boaz -
Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.
Annie Lobert -
The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.
Jerry Bridges -
When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.
Benjamin Wittes -
If you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I gained office by any secret promises. I have not campaigned either for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency. I have not subscribed to any partisan platform. I am indebted to no man, and only to one womanmy dear wifeas I begin this very difficult job.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. -
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
Ernest Istook
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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil -
America is basically a hypocritical society and recognizes that hypocrisy is found throughout. The public doesn't look for politicians to tell the truth or to deliver on their promises. This country could become America the beautiful, but it never will. It's in the hands of the wrong people. And the public is so apathetic. Those who are not apathetic are dispirited, discouraged, and disheartened. Those who will sometimes feel a twitch of inspiration that would lead them to do something, they, based on their conditioning, will start to total up all the reasons why they can't succeed.
Ernie Chambers -
I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.
Haruki Murakami -
Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.
George Bernard Shaw -
As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
Georgette Heyer -
Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Do you think Christianity could have lasted for nearly two thousand years on its promises unless the Lord could deliver on them?
Norman Vincent Peale -
Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.
Albert Camus -
If you ask people to do things and they usually don't get around to them, stop asking yourself, "What's the matter with people these days?" Instead, ask yourself, "What's the matter with me? What am I doing or failing to do that causes people to give me empty promises?"
Ed Bliss -
The promises we break are usually such as we are most forward in making.
Norm MacDonald -
We are seeing with great grief that America remains quiet as Turkey struggles against terrorism. Because there were promises given to us, and they need to be kept. If not, we can take care of our own business.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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All the mighty interceding of the ages that has ever shaken the kingdom of darkness has been based upon the promises of God.
Arthur Wallis -
The Bible is the statute-book of God's Kingdom, wherein is comprised the whole body of the heavenly law, the perfect rules of a holy life, and the sure promises of a glorious one.
Ezekiel Hopkins -
We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.
Elisabeth Elliot -
In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises.
Paul Klee