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Tag Name "Promises" (621)

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Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
William Hazlitt
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[The Yellow Birds] is based on a novel written by Kevin Powers, who is an Iraq War vet. I play a soldier who promises my friend's mother I'm going to keep him alive. But when we go overseas to Iraq, he gets killed. It's about what happened to him, my reckoning and dealing with that as I return home from the war.
Alden Ehrenreich
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No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again
William J. Clinton
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No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.
Albert Camus
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Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon
Virginia C. Andrews
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The reason we avoid the word 'synergy' is because people generally claim more synergistic benefits than will come. Yes, it exists, but there are so many false promises.Berkshire is full of synergies - we don't avoid synergies, just claims of synergies.
Charlie Munger
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...Promises are more dangerous then secrets.
Aimee Friedman
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God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar.
Stephen Covey
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I had a choice: I could believe the lies of the devil, in which case I was on my way to suicide, or I could believe in the promises of God, and be taken through my time of trial.
Angus Buchan
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Many people expect, just as they did then, those at the top to make all their decisions for them: Please get us work, and take care of our rent. These people vote for those who shout the loudest and deliver promises that are ultimately impossible to fulfill.
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
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Treaties exist so that they will be adhered to. It only serves to strengthen euroskepticism when we constantly make promises and reach agreements that we do not adhere to.
Wolfgang Schauble
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For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.
Adriana Trigiani
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Passive perception promotes pessimism Persistent perseverance promises prosperity
Yatin Patel
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Anyone who promises you something that you have not earned is seeking to enslave you.
James Wasserman
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Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.
Abraham Lincoln
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(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)
Zadie Smith
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It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.
Abe Ajay
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He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.
Zebulon Pike
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I've come to realize that it is much easier to infatuate people with promises, or even to lead them to their own deaths, than it is to awaken them to use their minds.
Zhang Xianliang
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
Zhuangzi
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Absolute power corrupts absolutely and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.
Howard Nemerov
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I am so thankful I had the strength and promises of a loving God to guide my choices and decisions, and to uphold me through the unbelievably dark days and times of overwhelming sorrow.
Zig Ziglar
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