Promises That Were Made Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep.

Judy Blume

#3. Though the world is becoming more wicked, the youth of Christ's Church can become more righteous if they understand who they are, understand the blessings available, and understand the promises God has made to those who are righteous, who believe, who endure.

David B. Haight

#4. 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

#5. I thought you weren't crazy anymore." Winter grinned. "I never made any promises.

Marissa Meyer

#6. 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

#7. Love in all its incantations, promises made with flesh and bone and word and intent.

Kim Holden

#8. Have you noticed ... that he actually hadn't made any promises to you?

Janie Chang

#9. I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.

Jodi Picoult

#10. Often, though, it was the man with the most promises who got the chits, not the one who made people better.

Hugh Howey

#11. What were promises, anyway, when made to the dying?

Marissa Meyer

#12. The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken.

Bree Despain

#13. This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.

Lauren Oliver

#14. Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

George R R Martin

#15. It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them...

Winston Graham

#16. People are never who you think they are, that it was necessary to get a complete background check on a person before you made any promises.

Jodi Picoult

#17. The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid.

Paul Hoffman

#18. The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.

Judd Gregg

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. That was the attraction of the sirens: not promises of power or riches, but bewildering, tantalizing prophecies that made men leap from their ships to go ask the crazy bitches what the fuck they were talking about.

Kevin Hearne

#22. Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.

Daniel H. Wilson

#23. The promises of the Old Covenant were preceded by an "if" that made them conditional on man's obedience, while the promises of the New Covenant were marked by a divine monergism:

Pascal Denault

#24. He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself.

Mario Puzo

#25. And truths, these days, are spoken
The same way promises are made,
With gritted teeth and crossed fingers.

Sanhita Baruah

#26. He bent forward and kissed me. He kissed me with promises that we never made to one another. He kissed me with apologies for things he never did. He kissed me with all that he was, and I kissed him back with everything that existed within me.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#27. people have been cheating on each other for as long as they've made promises to be monogamous

Aziz Ansari

#28. - 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

#29. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises.

Henry Morgenthau Jr.

#30. There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

John McCarthy

#31. All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?

Tablo

#32. Promises are just promises, made to be broken if they are built on lies. Not

Kat T. Masen

#33. One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.

Ann Brashares

#34. The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.

Robert Grudin

#35. The Senate voted 97-0 for an anti-spam bill to stop those annoying things you get on your computer. The senators made it very clear that when you start misleading the American people and start taking their money over false promises, that's our turf, buddy!

Jay Leno

#36. Promises are perhaps made in haste or out of emotions, that is why people do not afford to keep them

Tarif Naaz

#37. Our words must count. Hunger will not wait for promises we made.

Sami Yusuf

#38. 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

#39. Please." Ash gripped my hand, "Don't do this."
"I release you," I whispered. "From your vow of knighthood, and the promises you made. Your service to me is done, Ash. You're free.

Julie Kagawa

#40. 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

#41. I disliked promises on principle because my conscience made me keep them

Robin McKinley

#42. Some heroes are born. Some are made. And some are bribed with promises of food and sex.

Nicole Peeler

#43. It was a vow we made those long years ago. Neither of us spoke of it afterwards, but it hung between us like a spider web, fragile and easy to break, but danged hard to get shed of once the threads took hold.

Cassie Dandridge Selleck

#44. 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

#45. None of the good promises the LORD had made to the house of Israel failed. Everything was fulfilled. Joshua 21:45

Beth Moore

#46. By virtue of who we are, what we know, the promises we made to our Heavenly Father, and the fact that we are living now and where we are living, I absolutely think we were all born to lead.

Sheri L. Dew

#47. 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

#48. 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