Making Promises Quotes

#1. For better or worse, we live in a world where money can be acquired simply by attracting attention and by making promises.

Jonathan Slack

#2. I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future.

Jean Hersey

#3. Making promises when you're fourteen is even easier than working up a sweat.

Anonymous

#4. It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow, which is supposed to be dyed to match God-knows-what, on my feet; making promises over the telephone about things I will do at a precise hour next year.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. I'm a realist," I said. "Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.

Nicole Williams

#6. Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political system and a political union that means that you cannot deliver those promises, I fear, doesn't contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics.

Michael Gove

#7. Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.

Seth

#8. I'm fighting for people who cannot wait for changes, and I'm not making promises that I cannot keep.

Hillary Clinton

#9. I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'

Will.i.am

#10. I'm not good at making promises. But I would like you to know I've never been serious about a girl until I met your daughter, and now that I know I'm the first man she's brought home, I'm aiming to be the last.

Katy Evans

#11. If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises.

Evan Esar

#12. Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.

Seth Godin

#13. I can't compete with making promises you can't keep.

Hillary Clinton

#14. It's a dangerous business, making promises to kids.

Khaled Hosseini

#15. I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.

Mitt Romney

#16. Love is not about making promises but it's about believing, no matter how far you are or how frequently you talk, you know you both are made for each other

Anamika Mishra

#17. Memory is a riddled thing. I would caution you from making promises you cannot keep.

Roshani Chokshi

#18. Maybe," she said. "Maybe. But now you're making promises you might not be able to keep, and that's how people in love get very badly hurt.

Ransom Riggs

#19. There was plenty of life left and if he had to he would use it all to get her back. The time had passed for making promises to her-all that was left for him was to act.

Anna Godbersen

#20. In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world.

Katy Perry

#21. Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

Hannah Arendt

#22. You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.

Patricia Hewitt

#23. Donald Trump trying to do to the American voter what he did to the people that signed up for this course: He's making promises he has no intention of keeping.

Mitt Romney

#24. Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said.
"Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

John Green

#25. Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that I'm reaching for them more often than I used to. On the other hand, I'm making no promises for the future. The material itself always gets the last word.

Roy Kesey

#26. No, I do not want to be loved unconditionally. I want to be shown when I am treating you less than you deserve. I want you to leave if I ever start making you promises I do not see through. Love me for my flaws, yes, but don't you dare ever allow them to hurt you.

Beau Taplin

#27. Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Hannah Arendt

#28. The promises we break are usually such as we are most forward in making.

Norm MacDonald

#29. If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay- public.

Isocrates

#30. We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

Theodore Roosevelt

#31. In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.

Machado De Assis

#32. A year ago, you fell into my arms and I felt some crazy connection to you. I'm sure as hell not good enough for you, and I'm sure as hell not making any promises, but I'm damn sure you were worth waiting for.

Victoria James

#33. I don't make promises in case I can't keep them. Sometimes you can't help it; things stop you.

Glenda Millard

#34. Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!

Cornelia Funke

#35. When we step into positions of leadership, we make a whole set of promises we may not know we are making.

Bob Anderson

#36. You keep making these dirty promises. I'm starting to think you're all talk.

Melissa Blue

#37. Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities

Neil Young

#38. Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees.

Jay Leno

#39. The art of making True promises within ones ownself is termed as Will (Sankalp) ... for beginners (like me) it is a tough learning and for siddhas; they just become that way ... effortlessly they sail ...

Dinesh Kumar

#40. Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

John Green

#41. Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

Thomas Fuller

#42. Making fake promises while wearing a fancy dress ... that isn't enough. Promises take more work than that.

Jackson Pearce

#43. A powerful wind swept through the shtetl, making it whistle. Those studying obscure texts in dimly lit rooms looked up. Lovers making amends and promises, amendments and excuses, fell silent.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#44. As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.

Michael Chabon

#45. We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats; rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance.

Joanne Harris

#46. Gilles Duceppe avoids making campaign promises altogether so he can emphasize that his Bloc Quebecois has only one objective: to prevent Harper from forming a majority government.

Martin O'Malley

#47. In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

Chuck Palahniuk