Best 1652 quotes in «promise quotes» category

In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.

In South Carolina, Senator John Edwards won handily, fulfilling his promise to win every state he was born in.

Integrity is doing what you said you would do. It means you keep your promises.

In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.

In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government,[Barack] Obama has reneged on his promises.

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.

In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.

In this life, no matter what anyone promises you, what allegiances of love or fealty they swear or what gods they pray to, you will never have more than what you have at this moment.

In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents' promiise. This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing... But later, she will forget her promise. She will forget she had a grandmother.

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.

I promise to stand by you unwaveringly through thick and some day, God willing, through thin.

I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.

I promise you, the next time there is attack on - an attack on this country, the first thing people are going to want to know is, why didn't we know about it and why didn't we stop it? And the answer better not be because we didn't have access to records or information that would have allowed us to identify these killers before they attacked.

I promise if you keep searching for everything beautiful in this world, you will eventually become it.

I promise I'll do anything for you, especialy if it's easy. Homer Simpson

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can't lose.

I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.

I promise. I promise, you have my heart, and you have me. You will always have me.

I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and beside his own very agreeable society, I shall enjoy that of the most noted literary men of the day, which will be a great gratification to me.

I promise you, Donald [Trump], there's nothing about you that makes anyone nervous.

I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

I promise that this will be the last time you’ll see me. I won’t come back. I won’t put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I’d never existed.

I promise to love you forever in this life and wherever we go in the afterlife, because I know I can't go on in any life unless you're in it too.

I promise to play for the logo on the front, not the name on the back

I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

I promise you, if you reach that point where you are not afraid to figure out who you are, what you want and what your values are, you will not fear that anymore. You will not do it, you will be smarter.

I promise you, I'm fake sometimes, but other times I'm like, dude sit down.

I promise you, I will never enter a bicycle race.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.

I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. Thats a lie.

I remember when each 4th lot was vacant and overgrown, and the landlord only go this rent when you had it, and each day was clear and good and each moment was full of promise.

I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

I said to myself & to my coleagues at Melwood that I'd probably never play for a better club with a better players than Liverpool ever again, Then I went to Real Madrid & in 2009 we met Liverpool in the CL first knock-out round. Liverpool beat us 5-0 on aggregate. I wasn't happy because my team had lost but I was happy with my promise. I did NOT play for a better club with a better players than LIVERPOOL

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

I shot you, all right," he said, "and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too." What?" I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.

I should not make any promises right now, But I know if you Pray Somewhere in this world - Something good will happen.

Is it civility for Barack Obama to continually lie, to promise the same things he's promised us last year and the year before? Jobs, jobs, jobs, shovel-ready, shovel-ready, shovel-ready, earmarks, spending freezes, all of these things he's promised before. Where is the civility in misleading the people?

Is there any reason why you should not have faith in God? Has God ever broken one of His promises? I defy any infidel or unbeliever to place a finger on a single promise of God ever made and failed to fulfill.