The Promise Quotes

it's a kiss full of promise, of trust and of all that is magic.

But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.

Some promises and time disappoint us

Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?" "Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.

I like breaking the rules.

People realise that his promise [Tony Blair's] to 'save the NHS' was just talk.

"Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause his illness. That is his doing."

Tuskegee is a state of mind as it is a place, a place of possibility, hope, promise, self-empowerment, and where dreams come true.

There's nothing worse than breaking a promise to someone who cares about you.

To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking his word.

I didn't promise I wouldn't break your tender heart, Mica. Protect it from me. Don't let me touch that part of you. Don't let me destroy both of us that way.

It was easier to break promises when they weren't voiced.

The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.

For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies.

Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.

And joy is always a promise.

When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.

I wasn’t sure which of us was being more selfish—her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something that was too painfully impossible to want.

My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.

God's word is: 'He who strives never perishes.' I have implicit faith in that promise. Though, therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith.

Never make a promise in haste.

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

I will do my best, and I promise I will give this guy a fight, and I have to win this fight.

We are looking to the FTC to see whether companies that break their promises and collect personal information in an unfair and deceptive manner will be held accountable.

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.

I don't make promises.

An execution order hasn’t kept us apart before. There are ways to get around it. We will be together.” “Is that an order?” “No, a promise.

Valek: You know a death sentence hasn't kept us apart before. Yelena: Is that an order Valek? Valek: No, it's a promise!

I wanted to dissolve into the floor, mixing myself with the hard stone. A stone had a single purpose: to be. No complicated promises, no worries and no feelings.

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

If you keep circling the promise, God will ultimately deliver on it.

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.- spoken by death

As elected leaders, we must each recommit ourselves to work together toward putting our country on a prosperous, sustainable path and restoring Americas promise as a land of opportunity.

Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift .

Donald Trump must be taken seriously. He is fulfilling his dangerous campaign promises.

The modern masters promise very little

My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

Health foods make promises that only the Second Coming could fulfill.

The transcendental promises a vacation from history.

Lies and promises are necessary but not sufficient.

To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

Death promises nothing--not even oblivion.

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.