Promise Quotes - Page 59

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.

Renewing the promise of America begins with upholding the dignity of human life.

I am comfortable that the principles that I articulated were never compromised.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

I get it now. I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go.

he kissed me hard. "Promise me. Promise me you'll spend New Year's with me next year," he whispered into my ear.

It would’ve been easier to die. It’s not that I want to be dead now. I don’t. I have a lot in my life that I get satisfaction from, that I love. But some days, especially in the beginning, it was so hard. And I couldn’t help but think that it would’ve been so much simpler to go with the rest of them. But you—you asked me to stay. You begged me to stay. You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow.

I promise to stand by you unwaveringly through thick and some day, God willing, through thin.

When we remember presidents who didn't fulfill their promises - for instance George H.W. Bush saying no new taxes or Barack Obama saying he would close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay - we remember those because they're the exceptions, not the rule.

not keeping a promise is the same as lying!

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.

Anyone who marries gets no guarantee that their partner, no matter what they vow, will always keep that promise.

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

I whisper and you close your eyes. I speak and you turn away. If I scream, will you finally hear me beg you to hold me close to you, promise you'll never let go?

We must let patience have its perfect work, remembering that there are precious promises in the Scriptures for those who wait upon the Lord.

His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.

People are just fed up with these politicians that get up there, promise something, don't commit to their promises after they get elected. And it's all about - you know what it's all about? Filling their buddies' pockets full of money, sole-sourced deals, giving contracts. It's all about the money.

When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It's just common sense.

I will vote for the first candidate who promises to use nuclear missiles against LinkedIn.

An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is already ahead in developing the same product.

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.