Best 65 quotes in «broken promises quotes» category

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

Don't make promises you can't keep.

Don't fix what's not broken.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

I've never had my heart broken.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.

Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.

Angel of death a dark love like no other. you learn to respect harsh lessons or he metes out and if you do not obey well, in the end he's trying to take every spell of your soul.. ~Broken Valley

All of the things that you promised me that you'd be, now your hands are tired. And all of the things that you promised me that you'd need, now my hands are tired.

And they can’t understand, what hurts more— Missing the other person, or pretending not to.

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. (pg. 161)

Don't make any promises that you can't keep

Creo que deberían existir abogados que te pudieran ayudar a desligarte de las promesas de adolescencia alegando incapacidad emocional.

Do not break your heart for those who left you,use the pain to earn success that defines you.

Her kiss was a good-bye and a promise and a dream.

He spoke again as if he hadn’t just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now lay in a pile of shards.

His words were like Satin on her Skin. She just picked the lies she liked the best.

God she hated the dance. A blow to the cheek one minute and discussing a romantic getaway the next. It was the one step forward, two steps back waltz. She wanted to scream. Sitting on the side of the bed, Claire allowed herself tears and swallowed

He would doubtless have promised anything for the mere pleasure of breaking all bounds; perhaps he would even have liked her to ask him to swear on oath so he could add the attractions of perjury to his horrible pleasures.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.