Breaking Promises Quotes - Page 3

• You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

  David James Elliott

  Break Up, School, Musician

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

  Eric Cantor

  Mean, Promise, Looks

  "Meet the Press" with Davide Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. February 28, 2010.

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• I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

  Nat King Cole

  Helping, Wonder, Well Known

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• There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

  Nikki Sixx

  Passion, Jail, Addiction

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• It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

  Xiaolu Guo

  Dance, Courage, Heart

  Xiaolu Guo (2014). “Kleines Wörterbuch für Liebende: Roman”, p.95, Albrecht Knaus Verlag

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• The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

  Alvin Dark

  Mistake, Curves, Want

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• To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

  Sun Tzu

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

  Matt Cameron

  Success, Congratulations, Artist

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• Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

  Norman O. Brown

  Freedom, Common Sense, Liberty

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• I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

  Faye Dunaway

  Mean, People

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• Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

  Wally Schirra

  Break Up, Wife, Apollo

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• Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Three, Months, Resolution

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• The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Break Up, Fighting, Grandmother

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• Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

  Jack Davenport

  Mother, Advice, Show Business

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• No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

  Grover Cleveland

  Men, Law, Political

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• Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.

  Craig Kilborn

  Cutting, Night, Broken

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• Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

  John Dryden

  Death, Body, Spirit

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• Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

  Norman Jewison

  Men, Play, People

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• You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

  William Hurt

  Service Culture, Ideas, People

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• My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

  Howard Stern

  People, Promise, Revolutionary

  "Howard Stern Enters the No Spin Zone!". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 8, 2005.

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• The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Promise, Tears

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• I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

  John F. Kennedy

  Broken Promises, Keeping Your Word, Precedent

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• The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.

  Howard Dean

  Country, Party, Moving

  "Running on Instinct" by Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2004.

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• If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Progress, Legs, Sometimes

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

  James F. Byrnes

  Promise, Want, Lasting

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