Top 100 Promises Promises Quotes
#1. If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises".
Ronald Reagan
#2. I'll show you a pain in your ass." I gave him a wicked look. "Promises, promises.
Aileen Erin
#3. You're going to need this," she said, and pulled out a condom.
"At some point, we're also going to need a defibrillator and a fire extinguisher."
"Promises, promises.
Nora Roberts
#4. I could kiss ye, lass," Will said with a wink.
"Promises, promises.
Mia Marlowe
#5. 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
#6. When God promises, He's not saying, I'll try. He means, I can and I will.
James MacDonald
#7. 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
#8. When you break the promises, you loose the credibility. When you loose the credibility, you loose the trust. So, keep your promises, because trust is the foundation of soulfully inspired life.
Vishwas Chavan
#9. It is that perfection of God by which he is devoid of all change, not only in His Being, but also in His perfections, and in His purposes and promises.
Louis Berkhof
#10. I had complete faith that this was a man who would keep his promises, who would always be there when I needed him, who would always have my best interests at heart. Together we would be able to face anything in life.
Rosemary K. West
#11. THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow promises should be toned down before the public turns away in disgust. And if that should happen, our civilization might not survive.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#12. - I know he made you a promise, but circumstances have changed.
-The nature of promises, Linda, is that they remain immune to changing circumstances.
Frank Underwood
#13. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for building learning organizations.
Peter M. Senge
#14. If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.
Mason Cooley
#15. And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to.
Khadija Rupa
#16. The person who makes promises to everyone ultimately pleases no one.
Robin Sharma
#17. No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.
Albert Camus
#18. Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.
Arthur Levitt
#19. All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?
Tablo
#20. If the Americans do not want to support us anymore, let them go, get out! Let them forget their humanitarian promises!
Nguyen Van Thieu
#21. God doesn't promise us escape from suffering or pain. Rather, He promises to miraculously use even bad situations for your ultimate good.
Jim George
#22. I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.
Ian Jackson
#23. Results outweigh any claims or promises that you could possibly make.
Idowu Koyenikan
#24. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, 'The signs of a hypocrite are three: 1. Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie. 2. Whenever he promises, he always breaks it (his promise). 3. If you trust him, he proves to be dishonest (if you keep something as a trust with him, he will not return it).'
Abu Hurairah
#26. Promises are perhaps made in haste or out of emotions, that is why people do not afford to keep them
Tarif Naaz
#27. There. That is the answer to this riddle. The promises I can make, and the one I can't. Gwen. I will never leave you willingly. Life is a risk, and so love is, as well. But I swear to God, you will not regret the gamble.
Meredith Duran
#28. Our words must count. Hunger will not wait for promises we made.
Sami Yusuf
#29. Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
Bernard M. Baruch
#30. John Kerry's newfound interest in fiscal discipline is a political gimmick that defies his 20-year record in the Senate and stands in stark contrast to his reckless and expansive promises of new government spending on the campaign trail.
Steve Schmidt
#32. Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a 'Matrix' of you, so you're communicating with people all the time using Scientology.
Jason Beghe
#33. 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
#34. As prayer without faith is but a beating of the air, so trust without prayer [is] but a presumptuous bravado. He that promises to give, and bids us trust His promises, commands us to pray, and expects obedience to his commands. He will give, but not without our asking.
Thomas Lye
#35. 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
#36. Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this block of time, and what do you think about that?
Jodi Picoult
#37. Hope doesn't disappoint. God is FAITHFUL to His promises. Being delayed is a part of God's plan for our lives. So don't lose hope everything will come forth at the appointed time.
Prophetess Dina Rolle
#38. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me (Jer. 32:40b). That is a different kind of fear from the one that startles you. God promises to put it in you - not to shake and undermine your assurance, but to guard and maintain it.
John Flavel
#39. The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.
Doc Hastings
#41. Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.
Richard Bach
#42. 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.
#43. The only group large enough to handle," the world's biggest, "problems is the network of millions of local churches around the world. We have the widest distribution, largest group of volunteers, local credibility, the promises of God, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the inevitability of history.
Rick Warren
#44. When promises are verified, God's truth is magnified.
Thomas Watson
#45. The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#46. I've learned that when God promises beauty through the ashes, He means it.
Taya Kyle
#47. The future does not really lie in discovering new fragrant raw materials ... In order to endure, haute perfumery is therefore condemned to inventing new olfactory promises ... to finding a new form of expression.
Jean-Claude Ellena
#48. 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
#49. Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.
Abraham Lincoln
#50. Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.
H.G.Wells
#51. He was a man, he always performed his promises.
Zebulon Pike
#52. So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.
William Barclay
#53. Promises, eh? You make so many, but how many of them can you keep?
S. Jae-Jones
#55. I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.
Mitt Romney
#56. Don't just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don't just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don't just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream. Claim your promise. Spell your miracle.
Mark Batterson
#58. When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
Joe Slovo
#59. 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
#60. Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#61. Let me tell you the tale of a poet who hanged himself with promises ...
C.S. Friedman
#62. It's pointless to spend millions on advertising before ensuring that the promise keepers (employees) understand and can keep the promises made by the promise makers
Ian P. Buckingham
#64. While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.
Josh McDowell
#65. America deserves a nominee who reveres the law, not one whose service on the bench is conditioned on political promises.
John Cornyn
#66. I don't make promises, I promise results.
Joe Royle
#67. Go back to bed, Cowan. I want no promises from you.
Sandi Layne
#68. 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
#69. God does not dispense strength and encouragement like a druggist fills your prescription. The Lord doesn't promise to give us something to take so we can handle our weary moments. He promises us Himself. That is all. And that is enough.
Charles R. Swindoll
#70. What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
Rand Paul
#71. He tastes like sweet wine and promises [...]
Ann Aguirre
#72. I thought you weren't crazy anymore." Winter grinned. "I never made any promises.
Marissa Meyer
#73. Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.
Jodi Picoult
#74. What are a few false promises among friends, angel?"
"They're the difference between you and me ... that's what they are."
Vernon Kraft meets Ajax in The Ragtime Coven, coming soon!
Bruce Jenvey
#75. Humor gives presidents the chance to be seen as warm, relaxed persons. Humor reaches out and puts its arm around the listener and says, 'I am one of you, I understand,' and implicitly it promises, 'I will do something about your problems.
Robert Orben
#76. Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity.
Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
#77. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the same fate awaits those who believe those promises.
Paulo Coelho
#78. So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#79. Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them ...
Stephen Richards
#80. You can walk through the grocery store and, while the brightly colored packaging and empty promises are still mesmerizing, you can see the products for what they are.
Michael Moss
#81. Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.
H.L. Mencken
#82. Some people think they can just decree that everything will be fine. The world doesn't work like that. I'm not sure the world gives a crap about anyone's promises, well-meaning or otherwise. Sometimes the Universe just takes what it wants.
Paula Stokes
#83. The future of the church is incandescently bright. That's not because of promises made at Independence Hall, but a promise made at Caesarea Philippi - "I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Matt. 16:18). I believe
Russell D. Moore
#84. A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?
China Mieville
#85. Have you noticed ... that he actually hadn't made any promises to you?
Janie Chang
#86. The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey; the gospel brings promises and bids us believe.
John Stott
#87. Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.
James L. Buckley
#88. I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.
Jodi Picoult
#89. Promises retain men better than services; for hope is to them a chain, and gratitude a thread.
Jean-Antoine Houdon
#90. I promise you that i won't promise you anymore.,,,
Rahul Yadav
#91. Give me a few minutes," he said, sounding tired but happy, "before I make good on my promises."
She circled his nipple with her finger. "That's a pretty short recovery time."
"You inspire me.
Robin Bielman
#92. An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep.
Dieter Rams
#93. Reliance Insurance and Home Insurance were run into the ground, for example, their promises proved to be worthless.
Warren Buffett
#94. What were promises, anyway, when made to the dying?
Marissa Meyer
#95. I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
Andrew Jackson
#96. Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
Kabir
#97. Quality and service are important, if you want to make a sale. If you want to keep a customer for life, keep your promises.
Heidi
#98. Hillary Clinton is running for president. This time around, she promises to be warm and approachable. Like me.
David Letterman
#99. In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did.
Jodi Picoult
#100. There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises.
James Madison
