Promise Quotes - Page 28

There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.

Faith is lifeless unless you act on it. T.L. Osbourne says: “When the promises of God are believed and acted upon they become the power of God”. We can do all the things we have previously talked about about: desire, decision, prayer, speaking faith, seeing the answer, but if we don’t act our faith it is all to no avail.

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfill.

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.

As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.

In Africa, you cannot come into a comfortable material lifestyle without going through Christ. So many Africans say, "I'll take the whole package. That way I'm sure I'll get what I want." This is the compromise the rising urban class of Africa makes. Christianity is not seen as a soul-transforming device capable of producing redemption, but as a source of substantial material gratification.

I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms of compacts, resolutions, covenants. It will be up to Clea to interpret my silence according to her own needs and desires, to come to me if she has need or not, as the case may be. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied

Lightly given promises must meet with little trust.

The defence of democracy must consist in making anti-democratic experiences too costly for those who try them; much more costly than a democratic compromise

Everybody knows that the federal government promises a lot and delivers damn little, and pays for most of what it does deliver out of the earnings of individuals rather than the profits of great corporations.

Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate.

Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

Often times, being in a popular thing means that you have to compromise your own acting.

The Senate voted 97-0 for an anti-spam bill to stop those annoying things you get on your computer. The senators made it very clear that when you start misleading the American people and start taking their money over false promises, that's our turf, buddy!