Top 58 Promises Were Broken Quotes
#1. And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to.
Khadija Rupa
#2. 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
#3. Promises are just promises, made to be broken if they are built on lies. Not
Kat T. Masen
#4. We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our past, we will move ahead together in writing a new, brighter chapter in our joint history.
Barack Obama
#5. Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.
Sherrod Brown
#7. And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved.
Nikki Rowe
#8. People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself.
Leon Brown
#9. What about those Promises of yours to never leave me? she asked, stammering too much this time. His cruel smirk was as gut-wrenching as his words - Promises are meant to be broken, sweetheart.
Khadija Rupa
#10. 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
#11. She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.
Jane Austen
#12. Maybe I've got to be sufficiently broken by life's many broken promises to be sufficiently compelled to seek out God's unbreakable promises.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#13. All of the things that you promised me that you'd be, now your hands are tired.
And all of the things that you promised me that you'd need, now my hands are tired.
Tegan Quin
#15. now and it mustn't be broken under any circumstance. There was so much yet to be said, but it would all come in good time. So many meaningless apologies. So many strained explanations. Promises
Stefan Ahnhem
#17. The suffragettes endured 50 years of broken government promises and not being heard. The press never reported on their activities.
Sarah Gavron
#18. Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises.
Chief Joseph
#19. 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
#20. Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.
Kenneth Grahame
#21. 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
#22. Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them ...
Stephen Richards
#23. He spoke again as if he hadn't just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now lay in a pile of shards.
Aleatha Romig
#24. 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
#25. Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness?
Jodi Picoult
#26. I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.
Jodi Picoult
#27. When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.
Franklin P. Adams
#28. The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken.
Bree Despain
#29. She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.
Susanna Clarke
#30. Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. (pg. 161)
Richard Paul Evans
#31. Education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless of how long it may take, how many obstacles must be surmounted, or how much money it will cost. It is by such promises that the balance sheet of one's life is measured.
Greg Mortenson
#32. It's scary how easy promises were broken.
Jenny Han
#33. people change and promises are broken
Nick Jonas
#34. Some promises are best broken. Trust me on this: I'm a politician.
Alastair Reynolds
#35. Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.
Henri Nouwen
#36. I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep.
Judy Blume
#37. 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
#38. Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
Buffalo Bill
#39. I never made promises lightly
There may have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We will walk in fields of gold
Sting
#40. If you've broken any promises you've made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.
Gina Greenlee
#41. Could it be as simple as that? Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness? A line of crumbs made of memories, to lead you back to the person who was waiting?
Jodi Picoult
#42. Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies.
Benjamin Franklin
#43. After a while you learn the difference between holding a hand and falling in love.. You begin to learn that kisses don't always mean something, Promises can be broken just as quickly as they are made, and goodbyes sometime really are forever!
Atul Purohit
#44. Strengthened by the experiences of almost two decades in the various capitals, the Nazis were confident that their best "propaganda" would be their racial policy itself, from which, despite many other compromises and broken promises, they had never swerved for expediency's sake.
Hannah Arendt
#45. This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people,
John Connolly
#46. I'm tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.
Sidney Sheldon
#48. 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
#49. In the Community everything was black and white. Here, romantic relationships took on shades of grey; they were full of uncertainty, maybes, broken promises.
Claire Merle
#50. Enemies' promises were made to be broken.
Aesop
#51. Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
E.W. Howe
#52. Why were men so caught up with their honor, their solemn word, their promises?
Half the time the promises were never asked of them in the first place.
And yet the wars that were fought over such things, the hearts broken and the lands ruined..!
Tad Williams
#53. In the pool, on that last night of the last summer, we said we'd always come back. It's scary how easy promises were broken. Just like that.
Jenny Han
#54. It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.
Kate Chopin
#55. There was a time when I prayed to saints. What I liked about them were their humble beginnings: they were human, once, and so you knew that they just got it in a way Jesus never would. They understood what it meant to have your hopes dashed or your promises broken or you feelings hurt.
Jodi Picoult
#56. Unlike the made and broken promises of love, the transactions of employment were absolute. "Love's
Suanne Laqueur
#57. Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.
C.J. Hill
#58. He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.
George R R Martin
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