Top 100 No Promises Quotes
#1. Promise me no promises,
So will I not promise you:
Keep we both our liberties,
Never false and never true:
Let us hold the die uncast,
Free to come as free to go:
For I cannot know your past,
And of mine what can you know?
Christina Rossetti
#2. Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.
Marie Rutkoski
#3. Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour.
J.M. Bernstein
#4. No one should have the right to ask you to keep promiseespecially if they don't consider all the facts.
Bree Despain
#5. No, I don't have a heart of gold. It's normal - the one that gets hurt by rude words and broken promises.
Saru Singhal
#6. If you hear screaming, it's my meltdown. Do me a favor and make sure I stay dressed."
Those hazel eyes took their sweet time taking in every inch of my body. "I make no promises.
Ashlan Thomas
#7. Welcome to the ring. Enter those who dare, and let them share the spoils. Only they have earned it. Will you win? The ring offers no promises. But one thing's for sure: unless you get in the ring today, you don't even stand a damn chance. Decide what really matters, and get in the ring for it - now.
Julien Smith
#8. The person who makes promises to everyone ultimately pleases no one.
Robin Sharma
#9. No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.
Albert Camus
#10. But that's the thing about promises, isn't it? They can't always be kept. No matter how good the intentions behind them are.
Kara Terzis
#11. Rule number six: no promises."
"Okay", I agree easily. "No promises, ever."
"Promise?" he asks.
"Promise."
"And that's it."
"That's the only one.
Mary Elizabeth
#12. Music makes promises to the heart that no
mere song could ever fulfill.
Jessa Callaver
#13. Promises bind our kind as surely as iron chains or ropes of human hair. The fae never swear by anything we don't believe in. We don't ask for thanks and we don't offer them; no promises, no regrets, no chains. No lies.
Seanan McGuire
#14. And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved.
Nikki Rowe
#15. God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.
Martin Luther
#16. Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real
Billy Joel
#17. No matter how much you may change or how life may change, God never changes, and His promises never fail.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#18. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy
Martin Luther King Jr.
#19. All our promises and resolutions end in denial because we have no power to accomplish them.
Oswald Chambers
#20. No false promises are made that if you read these pages, you will learn the formula for writing a million-dollar screenplay; in fact, the dirty little secret of screenwriting books is that anyone who promises such formulas is lying. There
Peter Hanson
#21. No circumstance, person, or difficulty can stop the plans and the promises of God.
David Jeremiah
#22. No matter the intent or heartfelt emotion, not all promises could be kept.
Maxis
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#23. The Lord had made no promises that life would be safe and secure. He'd only promised to be with her through it all.
Regina Scott
#24. Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements.
Gene Sharp
#25. It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.
Charles Edison
#26. I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.
Jeff VanderMeer
#27. 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
#28. Go back to bed, Cowan. I want no promises from you.
Sandi Layne
#29. You have no merit of your own to plead why He should pardon you, but plead His written promises and He will perform them. Are
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#30. He did not think about any promises his master had made to him, and he did not consider it work but sheer pleasure to go around seeking adventures, no matter how dangerous they might be.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#31. You must make a choice, Libby. I can make you no promises of a fine house or an easy life. I can only pledge that as my wife you will never doubt that I love you and that I will protect you with the last ounce of my strength.
Elizabeth Camden
#32. When we have no reason to be happy we often think to end ourselves, We often think we have no one in this world, it happens when our loved ones leave us and make us alone in this vast universe.
Debolina
#34. You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
Cormac McCarthy
#35. There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.
Alice Hoffman
#36. We kissed for about the thousandth time, No promises, no demands, Just solid rebuilding of shattered trust.
Ellen Hopkins
#37. God does not slack his promises because of our sins... or hasten them because of our righteousness and merits. He pays no attention to either.
Martin Luther
#38. No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again
William J. Clinton
#39. But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.
Kate DiCamillo
#40. Promises hold no real value, What matters the most is not to loose yourself while fulfilling promises for others.
Alamvusha
#41. In this life, no matter what anyone promises you, what allegiances of love or fealty they swear or what gods they pray to, you will never have more than what you have at this moment.
Richard Kadrey
#42. No terms, no conditions, no promises, no commitment, and no institution - but only another example of what happens when law and politics attempt to regulate a religious institution.
H. Kirk Rainer
#43. I've had a past that promises no future so it's better to stick with the present.
Katie McGarry
#44. Naturally Teseo had a joke about all the government promises to increase housing construction: "If there were no future tense in Spanish, Castro would be speechless.
Regina Anavy
#45. Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.
John Locke
#46. There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.
Josh Billings
#47. When we talk to ourselves, we're not talking to anyone very smart, because our outlook is very limited. But if we talk to God, we're talking to someone who knows everything. He knows what he promised in the beginning, and he knows exactly how to fulfill those promises no matter the circumstances.
Jim Cymbala
#48. God promises that no matter how dismal the picture, He will take our problem and turn it into an opportunity for our growth.
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
#49. His vows of a moment before were forgotten, swept away in that great swift wind. Yet he felt guiltless, breaking the promises he had made himself. Such promises are only for the gulls that accept the ordinary. One who has touched excellence in his learning has no need of that kind of promise.
Richard Bach
#50. Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.
Roger L'Estrange
#51. Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!
Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#52. True faith is never found alone; it is always accompanied by expectation. The man who believes the promises of God expects to see them fulfilled. Where there is no expectation, there is no faith.
A.W. Tozer
#53. One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.
Harold Holzer
#54. Don't hire anyone - no matter what they offer - who promises you they'll sell 'X' copies of your book. Every book is different. The best any marketing company or PR firm can do for your book is make potential readers aware of it.
M.J. Rose
#55. Never believe a promise from a man or woman who has no discipline. They have broken a thousand promises to themselves, and they break their promise for you.
Matthew Kelly
#56. Promises XI. A Companion Picture XII. The Fellow of Delicacy XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman
Charles Dickens
#57. The promises made by a guilty conscience acknowledge and settle no debts...
Tove Jansson
#58. This is all yours right here. All of me. No one else gets a thing from me, you understand? I wouldn't do that to you. I wouldn't make all these promises if I didn't intend to keep them.
R.K. Lilley
#59. Bonds, as we saw in Chapter 2, are no more than promises by governments to pay interest and ultimately repay principal over a specified period of time. Either through default or through currency depreciation, many governments have failed to honour those promises.
Niall Ferguson
#60. the public has two hopes, and Government makes two promises - many benefits and no taxes. Hopes and promises that, being contradictory, can never be realized.
Frederic Bastiat
#61. We had more fun waiting in line together at the Department of Motor Vehicles than most couples have on their honeymoons. We gave each other same nickname, so there would be no separation between us. We made goals, vows, promises and dinner together. He read books to me ...
Elizabeth Gilbert
#62. No one can say yes to God's ways who has said no to his promises and commandments. Acceptance of the will of God comes in the daily submission under his Word.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#63. We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.
Daniel Webster
#64. Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
Francis Marion
#65. Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.
Margaret Heffernan
#66. I get it. You'd rather have him, broken, than me whole. If that didn't clarify my chances with you, nothing would. But you can't have what you want either, Deuce. I can't be your friend, feeling like this. Give me some time, and then ... Maybe. No promises.
Ann Aguirre
#67. Oh that we would hunger to be filled with the Word of God; for there is no greater armor, no greater strength, no greater assurance that He is with us, and in us, when we go forth in battle equipped and nourished by His instruction and determined to stand firm on His promises.
Billy Graham
#69. A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
Philip Yancey
#70. We can pretend this never happened."
"Up to you." He touched my cheek with his fingertips, and I felt like an electrical cable to my nervous system went live. "I wouldn't mind finishing the job."
"Let's not promise each other anything."
"All right. No promises," he said.
C.D. Reiss
#71. Darwin let his nervous face relax into a smile. No, Your Majesty. I have no aspirations to your throne, but I make no promises regarding your library.
Amber Kell
#72. When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It's just common sense.
David Platt
#73. Love is strengthened by distance. Dreams have weight and velocity. They are signals, promises. They have a destination. One night we will know no doubts, feel no foreign forces, and our particles will come to rest.
Sean Michaels
#74. So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.
Jan Brewer
#75. Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.
Herbert
#76. No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.
Josh McDowell
#77. We are in no position to rely upon God's promises unless we obey his commandments. Now,
John Calvin
#78. Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.
James Morcan
#79. Promises are like silly jokes, told around a table when the food is good and no one has anything to lose by telling a lie or two - lies should have been a synonym for the word 'promise' in dictionaries, but only a few people knew it.
Cameron Jace
#80. I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.
William Booth
#81. There were no promises, no obligations between living things, she thought. Not even humans. Just raw need hidden by a game of make-believe.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#82. No buts, Bertie. If you don't keep your promise then you'll get into serious trouble. Big time. You could go to prison, and then what? And there's God too. God watches these things and if he sees you breaking promises he can really get you. He does it all the time.
Alexander McCall Smith
#83. Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.
Miguel De Cervantes
#84. makes us no promises, no guarantees. Things move toward us whether we want them or not. Accidents occur, illnesses strike, and bombs fall. One street can be pulverized, the next one over not even scratched. Chance is so shifty and arbitrary.
Ann Howard Creel
#85. There were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.
Danielle Steel
#86. Something your father wouldn't have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No matter how it's done, or how it's justified, it leaves a mark that goes in deep. Be sure you're willing to wear that mark before you take the blood.
J.D. Robb
#87. 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
#88. Teach me to be resigned to thy will, to delight in thy law, to have no will but thine, to believe that everything thou doest is for my good.
[pg. 132, Divine Promises]
Arthur Bennett
#89. The federal government has made explicit and implicit promises to millions of people, but has put no money aside in order to keep those promises. Some of you may wonder where Bernie Madoff got the idea for his Ponzi scheme. Clearly he was studying federal entitlement policy.
John C. Goodman
#90. Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#91. God promises no easy life or days without troubles, trials, difficulties, and temptations. He never promises that life will be perfect. He does not call His children to a playground, but to a battleground.
Billy Graham
#92. People are being really picky about the upcoming election. I read that Americans do not want the next president to be a first-term senator, be over 65, or have a former president in the family. Then the Secret Service said, 'Hey, whoever slips through slips through. No promises.'
Jimmy Fallon
#93. 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
#94. Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.
William Shakespeare
#95. Let no one be ashamed of the cross by which Christ has redeemed the world. None of us must be afraid to suffer for the sake of justice or doubt the fulfillment of the promises, for it is through toil that we come to rest and through death that we pass to life.
Pope Leo I
#96. I wake up at night with nowehere to go, no promises to keep and no whispers any more.
Natasha Illum Berg
#97. I need to write faster, but I make no promises. I found out long ago that when you look at the overall task, the cathedral you have to build, it looks so daunting that you just give up and sit down and play a video game.
George R R Martin
#98. I'm going to let myself love you now. Don't freak out on me."
He laughed. "No promises.
Olivia Cunning
#99. If the blaming action produces a false apology, patronization of the moral code, and false promises with no intention of complying with moral law, it prevents satisfaction in the victim.
Karin Huffer
#100. When you adapt to someone, they become a part of your routine, a part of you. And when they're taken away, you feel a bit lost. No matter how much you think it won't affect your life, it does.
E.L. Montes
