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Tag Name "Promises" (621)

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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Hannah Arendt
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Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.
Annie Lobert
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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
Maria Edgeworth
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Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.
Marilyn Monroe
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Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon
Virginia C. Andrews
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Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.
Robert Charles Wilson
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Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
Francis Marion
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Promises. I was drowning in promises.
Richelle Mead
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Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.
Kristin Hannah
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Promises made out of ignorance should not be kept.
Laura Schlessinger
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Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order.
Stefan Halper
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Promises retain men better than services for hope is to them a chain, and gratitude a thread.
Jean-Antoine Houdon
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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
Owen Feltham
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift
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Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them.
Mike Ditka
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If you stare into a flame You'll get an eye full of energy If you write your nightscapades You'll get a dawn full of promises
Happy Rhodes
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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
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For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
Robert Bork
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One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The ability to make and keep promises is the key aspect to trust in a relationship.
Robert Cheeke
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A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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