Promise Quotes - Page 37

• Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.

  Howard Nemerov

  Time, Children, War

  1960 New Poems,'The View from an Attic Window'.

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• Nemo tam divos habuit faventes,
  Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri.
  Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Nemo, Another Day

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• What we want, we have for our pains
  The promise that if we but wait
  Till the want has burned out of our brains,
  Every means shall be present to state;
  While we send for the napkin the soup gets cold,
  While the bonnet is trimming the face grows old,
  When we've matched our buttons the pattern is sold,
  And everything comes too late-too late.

  Fitz Hugh Ludlow

  Time, Pain, Mean

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• The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges.
  It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Business

  Speech accepting Democratic presidential nomination, Los Angeles, Cal., 15 July 1960.

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• If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions.
  Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace.

  Ariel Sharon

  Inspirational, Business, Real

  "Report: Sharon willing to make 'painful concessions'", edition.cnn.com. April 13, 2003.

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• When you look at a strong brand, you see a promise.

  Jim Mullen

  Strong, Business, Looks

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• He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Lambs, Lions

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with a Glossary”, p.131

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• An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

  Ignazio Silone

  Equality, Men, Law

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• Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise,
  Having naught else but Hope.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hope, Race, Wavering

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.243, Wildside Press LLC

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• And I dream that something's coming
  And it's not just in the wind
  It's more than just tomorrow
  It's more than where we've been
  It offers me a promise
  It's telling me, begin!

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Hope, Wind

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• Great men,
  Till they have gained their ends, are giants in
  Their promises, but, those obtained, weak pigmies
  In their performance. And it is a maxim
  Allowed among them, so they may deceive,
  They may swear anything; for the queen of love,
  As they hold constantly, does never punish,
  But smile, at lovers' perjuries.

  Philip Massinger

  Life, Queens, Men

  Philip Massinger (1848). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an introduction, by Hartley Coleridge”, p.175

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• Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Marriage, Death

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.563, Jazzybee Verlag

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• On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Peace, Passion, Priorities

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• Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There must be some reason why it is mainly liberals who tend to say this, but the chief thing to note about the promise is that it is usually an empty one.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Leaving, Politics

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• He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.

  Tommy Douglas

  Men, Political, Politics

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• Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Political, Liberty, Visionaries

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

  Margaret Atwood

  Greed, Fuel, Politics

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• Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities

  Neil Young

  Government, People, Community

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• Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Future, Past, Views

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (2015). “Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential”, p.9, New World Library

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• No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  People, Democracy, Society

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• Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.

  Isaac Asimov

  Truth, Doe, Process

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• It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

  Marcel Proust

  Beauty, Pleasure, Possibility

  Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Dennis Joseph Enright (1992). “The captive, The fugitive”

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• The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Sleep, Expression

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• Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Death, 4th Of July

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• Am I keeping my promises?

  Robert Breault

  Marriage

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