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• I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye, I will never forget - not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you, smile at me and make it true.

  Diana Lynn

  Smile, Passion, Eye

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• Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

  Thomas Huxley

  Prophet, Messiah

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

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• We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

  Barbara Jordan

  America, People, Trying

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Disappointment, Father, People

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• Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Despair, Dinner, Compatible

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Vanity Fair”, p.247

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• It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Curiosity, Literature, Paradise

  "Put Out More Flags". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1942.

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• And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.

  William Shakespeare

  Ears, Break, Juggling

  William Shakespeare (1852). “The complete works of William Shakespeare, revised with intr. remarks and notes by S. Phelps, with engr. designed by T.H. Nicholson [and a second engr. title-leaf]. 2 vols. [publ. in parts].”, p.131

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• If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

  Camille Claudel

  Nice, Paradise, Ifs

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• Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Keeping Promises, Kept Promises

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

  Mae West

  Funny, Business, Commitment

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

  George W. Bush

  Character, Commitment, Compassion

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

  Francis Marion

  Tree, Self Reliance, Fruit

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• I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.

  Cameron Diaz

  Valentines Day, Kissing, Frogs

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• Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

  Jonathan Swift

  Broken Heart, Food, Pie

  1738 Polite Conversation.

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• Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

  Mark Twain

  Keeping Promises, World, Body

  Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

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• Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

  James Lane Allen

  Positive, Success, Dream

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• Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

  Karl Rahner

  Christmas, Beautiful, Song

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• Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

  Teddy Pendergrass

  Adversity, Wonderful

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• In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.

  George Washington

  Important, Purity, Presidents Day

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1848). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.159

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• If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

  Epictetus

  Perfection, Progress, Evolution

  Epictetus (1890). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”

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• Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

  Sherrod Brown

  College, Years, Broken

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• You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  Brain, Doe, Crowds

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• In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

  Charles Edison

  Past, Views, Reform

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• It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.

  Charles Edison

  Men, Groups, Able

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• Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.

  Howard Dean

  Real, Democrat

  "Democratic rivals spar over Bush's tax cuts". usatoday30.usatoday.com. July 30, 2003.

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