Promise Quotes - Page 47

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come.

So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.

Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well.

Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.

There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises.

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

Under extremely difficult circumstances (Iraq) pursues the inherently complicated task of rebuilding the country. Yet Iraq continues, courageously, to reach for the promise of a democratic, federal and pluralistic state, where generations of oppressed Iraqis will regain their dignity, freedom and the right to join the civilized and progressive nations of the world.

Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

We have reached one of the great stages in the adventure of thought … We are required to see the universe with new eyes, and it is because it makes such demands and also holds out the promise of realizing them, that the study of science is so supremely worth while.

It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.

I have not given it [synagogue] up. Christianity is the completion of the synagogue, for the synagogue was a promise, and Christianity is the fulfillment of that promise.

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.

O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin.

Some promises aren’t worth keeping.

Let's prove that the American dream is big enough for everyone to share in its promise.

The beginning is the promise of the end.

Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope.

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

We have become a sloppy bunch of people. We say things we don’t mean. We make promises we don’t keep.