We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
One bold inspiration choreographs a dance with promise.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.
Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.
But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations.
We'll be back. I promise you that.
Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!
Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.
Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.
We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.
Oaths are the fossils of piety.
He was ever precise in promise-keeping.
Buddhism doesn't promise to fulfill our desires. Instead it says, 'You feel unfulfilled? That's okay. That's normal. Everybody feels unfulfilled. You will always feel unfulfilled. There is no problem with feeling unfulfilled. In fact, if you learn to see it the right way, that very lack of fulfillment is the greatest thing you can ever experience.' This is the realistic outlook.
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
Love is a promise delivered already broken.
America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.
But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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