Promise Quotes - Page 4

• Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

  Martin Luther

  Friday, Spiritual, Jesus

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• What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

  Hermann Broch

  People, Important, What's Important

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• So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.

  Ruth Ann Minner

  States, Minutes, Pizza

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• With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Drama, Environment, Friction

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• I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

  David Bowie

  Graduation, Travel, Musician

  "Mourning David Bowie, Dead at 69" by Nicole Silverberg, www.gq.com. January 11, 2016.

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• Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Self, Wings, Progress

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• When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Change, Broken Heart, Liars

  Franklin P. Adams (''F.P.A.'') (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• Your word is your bond.

  Melvyn Douglas

  Ties, Power Of Words, Obligation

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

  Quintilian

  Boys, Giving, Imagination

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.77, Delphi Classics

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• To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.

  William Tyndale

  Trust, God, Faith

  William Tyndale, John Frith (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith”, p.317

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• People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself.

  Leon Brown

  People, Broken, Should

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• Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

  Mary Douglas

  Disappointment, Hands, Expectations

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• Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

  Tom Allen

  Cells, Research, Disease

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• As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

  Julian Bond

  Jobs, Skills, People

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• Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.

  Herbert

  Faith, Clever, Civilization

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• As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

  Marlo Thomas

  Success, Children, Father

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• It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Girl, Men, Boys

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• It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.

  Paul Tsongas

  Lying, Worry, Fine

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• One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Biblical, People, Rose

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Teacher, Talking, Priorities

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• One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.

  Ann Brashares

  Memories, Good Memories, Made

  Ann Brashares (2007). “Summers of the Sisterhood”, Corgi Childrens

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• The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Moving, Unity, World

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• What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.

  Brad Henry

  Family Love, Compassion, Hopeful

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• These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

  Douglas Sirk

  Meaningful, Rotten, World

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• When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

  Joe Slovo

  Morning, Men, Wife

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