Promise Quotes - Page 57

Am I keeping my promises?

compromise is the work of mature people.

My suspicion is that this is an unavoidable human dilemma, that people will always want to avoid pain, to avoid those who are in pain, and so will be vulnerable to anyone or anything that seems to promise permanent avoidance.

I promise you the Lord will bless you in your efforts, for this is His work, and He will guide your prayerful efforts to bring the ordinances and covenants to your ancestors....you can make a powerful contribution. Begin now. I promise you that the Lord will help you find a way. And it will make you feel wonderful.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?

A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.

And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.

Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.

He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.

If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.

I promise to do everything in my power to achieve energy independence and to do so within ten years and to stop global warming, which says to the American people that we are about the future, about addressing how we create jobs, how we care for our children, how we grow our economy, and how we preserve our planet.

Donald Trump trying to do to the American voter what he did to the people that signed up for this course: He's making promises he has no intention of keeping.

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.

Currently I'm not a crazy ex-girlfriend, but I can't promise I won't be one again.

Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.

Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite.

In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.

If I'm a young mom or young dad, I can find a great source of strength. God has promised that He will help me to be the mom or dad that He wants me to be. He has promised to be with me every step of the way. He has promised that He will never leave me or forsake me. These are wonderful promises that I can learn to trust and build a life on.

The Land of Promise is for those who simply remain to the end.

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

I promise I'll do anything for you, especialy if it's easy. Homer Simpson

Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.

God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.