Promise Quotes - page 3

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way. (Stephen Ambrose)
I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises. View quote
Chaka Fattah
On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free. View quote
Dan Lipinski
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition. View quote
Douglas Sirk
A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues. View quote
Otis Rush
I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else. View quote
Picabo Street
To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served. View quote
Solomon Ortiz
On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: "I will try my outmost". This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin. View quote
Gordon Brown
What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence. View quote
David Graeber
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. View quote
John Lennon
Don`t promise me forever, just love me day by day. (Alexander Rybak)
The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given. View quote
James Frey
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. View quote
James Allen
Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years. View quote
Ferdinand Marcos
Safeguarding the interests of our Taiwan compatriots and expanding their well-being is the mainland's oft-repeated pledge and solemn promise of the new leaders of China's Communist Party central committee. View quote
Xi Jinping
Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough. View quote
Italo Calvino
The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream. View quote
Jack Kerouac
A promise must never be broken. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment of probable truth. Confirmed hunches, of course, are more upbeat than discredited hypotheses. Since the worst traditions of "popular” writing falsely equate instruction with sweetness and light, our promotional literature abounds with insipid tales in the heroic mode, although tough stories of disappointment and loss give deeper insight into a methodology that the celebrated philosopher Karl Popper once labeled as "conjecture and refutation.”. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise. View quote
Nancy Reagan
America is my home - I believe in her promise and I will do what I can to secure that promise for future generations of our children. America is great - not because of our military might or our economic strength - but because of the greatness of Americans, and I welcome the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder, side by side with all of you to preserve our heritage rich in "liberty and justice for all." (Alberto Gonzales)
We're the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way. View quote
Judith Butler
You have to promise you won't fall in love with me. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would listen intently and then promise to make it all come true. And the way he said it made her believe him, and she knew how much he meant to her. View quote
Nicholas Sparks