Quotes with promises

  • Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love... I am trying to be truthful.
  • Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
  • While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.
  • Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.
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  • John Burroughs For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Harold S. Geneen I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • John Newton If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer-His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.
    John Newton
     
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  • Harold S. Geneen In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Boris Johnson It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Peter F. Drucker Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Buddy Wakefield All these kids you can't seem to make any sense of would stop holding you so far off the edge of your seats if you'd start holding yourselves to the promises you make. We know you're not perfect because we're not. And I know I ain't perfect. But I believe I was meant to be.
    Poetry Older People
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Charlotte Bunch America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.
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  • Archibald Macleish America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Simone Weil Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Mark Twain Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • C. S. Lewis Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Cass Sunstein Donald Trump promises to impose, soon after his inauguration, a new requirement on federal agencies: If they want to issue a new regulation, they have to rescind two regulations that are now on the books. The idea of 'one in, two out' has rhetorical appeal, but it's going to be extremely hard to pull off.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Aesop Enemies promises were made to be broken.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Buffalo Bill Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
    Buffalo Bill Museum (1995)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Ovid Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Edmund Burke Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Quentin Crisp I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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