The Promise Quotes

Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.

If you want to understand a subject promise to speak on it.

I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.

So much for Obama's promise of 'quality, affordable health care.'

Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.

Basically all I've done is keep my promise.

What we do know, despite the lack of media curiosity, is that Hillary Clinton promises a radical amnesty combined with a radical reduction in immigration enforcement.

In each of [my] actions, I'm keeping my promises to the American people. These are campaign promises.

Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.

What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.

A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises. He continued with the policies of his predecessor.

There buds the promise of celestial worth.

I know all the problems of the schools. They're rigid, they're bureaucratic, they've got a lot of problems. But it's such an important institution, and holds such promise.

A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.

Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.

We must let patience have its perfect work, remembering that there are precious promises in the Scriptures for those who wait upon the Lord.

We kissed for about the thousandth time, No promises, no demands, Just solid rebuilding of shattered trust.

Can’t promise I’ll stay. That would be lying. And I’m so, so tired of lies.

God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.

Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.

When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.

We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.

Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.

I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one.

Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever had would have thought that this would be going on right now.

I get it now. I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go.

You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow. And I can understand why you're angry, but you can't blame me. You can't hate me for taking your word.

I never lie- except for the few times I do in fact lie, but it's never intentional, and i'm totally telling the truth right now" She raised her right hand "promise".

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

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

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.

The promise of our country is that the rules are fair. If you work hard and play by the rules, you can earn your share of America's blessings. Those are the beliefs I learned from my parents.

I don't make promises in case I can't keep them. Sometimes you can't help it; things stop you.

The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.

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

At the end, [Eva Braun] begged me to spare these letters [to Adolf Hitler] and bury them. She specifically wrote to me and told me over the phone not to read any of the letters, she made me promise.

Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.