Promise Quotes - Page 71

I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.

Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good parent, or a good boyfriend, whatever.

I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.

Promise demands Process.

Politicians never keep all their promises.

I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.

We tend to promise by our hopes and live by our fears.

The promise to leave the European Union, end the supremacy of EU law and take back control of our democracy. With my leadership, it will be delivered.

The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.

I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.

No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.

It’s all a bit of a gamble, mate. That’s all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don’t take chances.

This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.

Compromise is just a fancy term for losing.

I don't know if she's making the right choice, but it's not my choice to make. I promise to support her, whatever she decides. Because that's what sisters do.

There's never been a better time to change the way you think. Replace every 'I can't' with 'How can I?' It might sound like semantics, but I promise it will bring whatever you want to accomplish much closer to becoming a reality.

Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you.

God never forgets a promise.

We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

Death promises nothing--not even oblivion.

To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.