Promise Quotes - Page 24

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.

But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth and meaning, and spend a lot of time telling you about the suffering you have to go through to achieve it.

The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood.

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

There is a difference between a job and the promise of jobs, there is a difference between economic development and the promise of economic development.

If you take the responsibility for your life, you can start changing it.

We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.

Deliver more than you promise.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.

God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.

Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.

A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.

My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?” What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

Every objet in the world promises satisfaction, but it never gives satisfaction -it only promises.

I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.

If kids clearly see the promise, they will gladly pay the price.

God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

Wonder — the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge — promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.