Promise Quotes - page 7

Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept? (Bernhard Schlink)
I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart. View quote
Gabrielle Zevin
There is something about the aroma of fresh books that's totally intoxicating. A new book has a certain clean, crisp smell full of promise that is difficult to define. Sort of like the scent and feeling of just-washed bed linens at the moment you slide your legs between them. View quote
Debra Ginsberg
Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance. View quote
David Levithan
I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you. View quote
Jennifer Donnelly
Synchronicity holds the promise that if we will change within, the patterns in our outer life will change also. View quote
Jean Shinoda Bolen
I don't like seeing you cry. You will stop." I'll give you a promise," he said gruffly. "And then you will cease your worrying." You will have confidence in my ability to protect you," he ordered. You will have faith in me. I command it. View quote
Julie Garwood
Every man has a weakness!” he patiently explained. "I'll find theirs, I promise you.” "Every man?” "Yes,” he answered emphatically. ... "What is your weakness, Brodick?” she asked. "You. View quote
Julie Garwood
Not a frog, I hope?” he asked...She shook her head. "No. And if it was I wouldn't kiss it, I promise you. I might kiss a prince if I could be sure he'd turn into a frog, but not the other way around. View quote
Eva Ibbotson
Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers. View quote
Carlo Collodi
Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government. (William Weld)
We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together. View quote
Valerie Jarrett
If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce. View quote
Barbara Jordan
We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that. View quote
Barbara Jordan
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. View quote
Barbara Jordan
Never make a promise - you may have to keep it. View quote
Neil Jordan
Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results. View quote
Diane Duane
I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens. View quote
Milos Zeman
The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges. View quote
Nicholas A. Christakis
I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time. View quote
Carolyn Keene
When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is. (Madeleine L'Engle)
O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come. View quote
Richard Llewellyn
The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise. View quote
Mia Love
Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence. View quote
Reince Priebus
A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness. View quote
Christina Hoff Sommers