Promise Quotes - Page 14

Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

Love me or hate me I promise that it will never make or break me...<3

We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

Just let it happen and, I promise you, all that is magic will appear.

God can be trusted. He keeps His promises. He doesn't make any mistakes.

Hookers have to deliver on their promise... unlike politicians.

Trust is rebuilt by focusing not on what the other person did or did not do but on critiquing one's own behavior, improving one's trustworthiness, and focusing attention not on words and promises but on actions, attitudes, and ways of being.

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.

For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

Tell of his wondrous faithfulness, And sound his power abroad; Sing the sweet promise of his grace, And the performing God.

The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.

I would hope with all my heart, that Jay Z not take personally what was said... I would like to take this opportunity to say to Jay Z and Beyonce: I’m wide open, my heart is filled with nothing but hope and the promise that we can sit and have a one-on-one to understand each other.

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

Don't promise twice what you can do at once.

Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned; and I will go still further, and say that this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord had given, and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.

Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.

Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes.

If you give voters a choice between a Democrat who promises to do nothing and a Republican who promises to do nothing, they’re generally going to side with the Republican, because they’re better at that than we are.

From time to time, from the endless flow of our mental imagery, there emerges unexpectedly something that, vague though it may be, seems to carry the promise of a form, a meaning, and, more important, an irresistible poetic charge.