Promise Quotes - page 2

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. (Niccolò Machiavelli)
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Beauty is the promise of happiness. View quote
Edmund Burke
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. View quote
Edmund Burke
Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual. View quote
Norman Mailer
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. View quote
A. A. Milne
I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun. View quote
Babe Ruth
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
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)
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgastic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery. View quote
Betty Friedan
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat? View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Promise is most given when the least is said. View quote
George Chapman
The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises. View quote
Steven Erikson
President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans... And to heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your family. View quote
Mitt Romney
As regards the efficacy of the art and the theories of it, I promise and expect that in these volumes I shall undoubtedly show myself of very considerable importance not only to builders but also to all scholars. View quote
Vitruvius
There buds the promise of celestial worth. View quote
Edward Young
I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring. View quote
David Bowie
Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Many myths and fairy tales tell of a prince, who has been turned into an animal or a monster by sorcery, being saved by a woman. This is a symbolic representation of the development of the animus toward consciousness. Often the heroine may ask no questions of her mysterious lover, or she is only allowed to meet him in darkness. She is to save him through her blind faith and love, but this never works. She always breaks her promise and is only able to find her beloved again after a long quest. (Marie-Louise von Franz)
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. View quote
Karl Popper
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Promise me you'll never stop dreaming. View quote
Melina Marchetta
My mother once said to me, 'You must promise to be happy; it is the greatest favour you can do to others'. It has guided me throughout my life. View quote
Stephane Hessel