The Promise Quotes

Our government shouldn't make promises we cannot keep, but we must keep the promises we've already made.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.

Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.

It was a smile that spelled trouble. With a promise.

[Virtual Currencies] may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations Promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system.

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.

Europe and America should judge Georgia's leadership on the basis of their actions, not just their words and promises. Otherwise Saakashvili will transform Georgia into a dictatorship.

Repeat after me. I promise not to run outside of the house. I promise not to run inside of the house. I promise not to touch, pick up, step on, anything that looks interesting.

Not to decide is to decide not to, nowhere in the bible does it promise tomorrow.

Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.

It's a new day: Full of promise and love. The only thing that can take away that great feeling is - reading the news or speaking to people.

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.

Peace can be settled in the heart of each who turns to the scriptures and unlocks the promises of protection and redemption that are taught therein.

The Word of Wisdom does not promise you perfect health, but it teaches how to keep the body you were born with in the best condition and your mind alert to delicate spiritual promptings.

The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an unspoken cosmic rule.

You keep customers by delivering on your promises, fulfilling your commitments and continually investing in the quality of your relationships.

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

God will keep His promises to you as you honor your covenants with Him.

*Oh, I know I could say were through And tell myself I'm over you But even if I made a vow I promise not to miss you now And try to hide the truth inside I fell cause I, I just can't live a lie *

I never saw a player who had greater promise.

Your father," Luke said, "what did he say to you when you saw him? What did he promise you?" "Oh, you know. The usual. A lifetime's supply of Knicks tickets.

And we believe in his promises. Therefore you can never lose hope - hatikva - because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.

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.

Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming.

God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.

The new book is amazing. It's called, The Pleiadian Promise. I get emotional when I just connect to it, because it's really an amazing, powerful, powerful piece of work.

The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.

Reason lives on the systematization of the past, but Faith is the promise of the future.

It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.

What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."

Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than "I'll never leave you.

I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.

Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!

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

Promise is the capacity for letting people down.

If I ever go into a coma, one of you has to promise to come by occasionally and tweeze my unibrow.

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.

...there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.

But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.

God doesn't want your crises-mode promises.

A great wine served in fine glassware is beautiful. But it is also seductive and full of strange promise and perhaps the slightest hint of naughtiness, all waiting to be uncoiled.

All those countries who keep their aid promises should be proud of what they've done

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.