Broken Promises Quotes - Page 4

• Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Commitment, Keeping Promises

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.123, Routledge

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• Somewhere in between all the mind games, lies and seduction...I fell for you. Somewhere in between all the broken promises, manipulation and heartaches...I got over you. But, I guess I fibbed a few times too. Remember all those times I swore I needed you? Well consider them lies because baby, here I am without you, and I survived.

  Lil Wayne

  Baby, Lying, Here I Am

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• Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.

  Henri Nouwen

  Relationship, Broken, Expectations

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Keeping Your Word, Breaking Promises, Precedent

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• Better a broken promise than none at all.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Commitment, Broken

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.383, Courier Corporation

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• Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Blood, Broken, Promise

  Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.179, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

  Alice Miller

  Graduation, Heart, College

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• Hermes's shoulders sagged. "They'll try, Percy. Oh, we'll all try to keep our promise. And maybe for a while things will get better. But we gods have never been good at keeping oaths. You were born because of a broken promise, eh? Eventually we'll become forgetful. We always do." "You can change." Hermes laughed. "After three thousand years, you think the gods can change their nature?" "Yeah," I said. "I do.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Years, Broken

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.256, Penguin UK

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• Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?

  Brian Perkins

  Broken Heart, Men, Soul

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• It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises.

  Reince Priebus

  Broken, Promise, Care

  "On 2nd anniversary, GOP says health care law bad prescription". www.cnn.com. March 24, 2012.

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• Don't fix what's not broken.

  Robert Atkins

  Broken Heart, Heart, Broken

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• Take a deep breath and take this to heart; God has nothing to do with broken promises. When He says, I promise, mark it down it's going to happen.

  James MacDonald

  Heart, Broken, Promise

  James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.61, Moody Publishers

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• The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.

  Roger Mahony

  Broken, Abuse, Church

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• We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.

  Daniel Webster

  People, Broken, Historical

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “Speeches in Congress”, p.413

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• I don't think Hank's home run record will ever be broken. There's no way.

  David Justice

  Broken Heart, Running, Home

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• Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

  Kelly Miller

  Broken Heart, Paris, Germany

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights ...: Why America Entered the Conflict ...& a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”

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• In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

  Cal Thomas

  Character, Home, Law

  Cal Thomas, Wayne Stayskal (2001). “The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas”

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• I've never had my heart broken.

  Sally Field

  Broken Heart, My Heart, Heart Broke

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• My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.

  Hope Solo

  Broken, Promise, Next

  Hope Solo (2013). “Solo: A Memoir of Hope”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.

  Susanna Clarke

  Regret, Rain, Color

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.162, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

  Jane Austen

  Doors, Broken, Promise

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• But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

  Sherman Alexie

  Wall, Broken, Promise

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• Stephanie Kallos's lovely and heartfelt first novel is a gift. A story of broken hearts and broken promises, it is also the story of the ways we put things back together-messily, beautifully, and ultimately triumphantly. Kallos is a writer to watch, and one who, mercifully, still believes in happy endings.

  Sheri Holman

  Believe, Heart, Broken

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• When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Broken Heart, Children, Imbeciles

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• A broken promise is not a lie.

  Paul Ekman

  Lying, Broken, Promise

  Paul Ekman (2009). “Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (Revised Edition)”, p.326, W. W. Norton & Company

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