Quotes About Breaking Promises

#1. Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

William Hazlitt

#2. Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly.

Charlotte Bronte

#3. Women get a little more excited about New Year's Eve than men do. It's like an excuse: you drink too much, you make a lot of promises you're not going to keep; the next morning as soon as you wake up you start breaking them. For men, we just call that a date.

Jay Leno

#4. Promises are just chains," she rasps. "Both are meant for breaking.

Pierce Brown

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

Judy Blume

#6. I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with a gnawing worry about that separation possibly becoming a permanent condition.

Thomas L. Dumm

#7. 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

#8. We can position ourselves to receive God's promises, but it will take a lot of stretching, moving, breaking and changing!

Alisa Hope Wagner

#9. What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.

Helen Keller

#10. Some people you meet slowly, and others you get to know in a second. Incredibly fast, as if you've known them your whole life and you just revisiting an old memory

Tammy Faith

#11. When you have a dream and someone makes promises they keep breaking, it is hard to recover. You lose hope.

Yasmine El Rashidi

#12. A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.

Stephen J. Cannell

#13. He gave way to the fear that had come with her, the sense of the breaking of promises, the incoherence of Time. He broke.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. 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

#15. People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

Nat King Cole

#16. Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

Andrew Solomon

#17. There is no such thing as a future decision. There are only present decisions that affect the future.

Venita VanCaspel

#18. The promises you make on your mother's deathbed are promises that are absolute; they're titanium. There's no way you're breaking them. I promised my mother that I would take care of my brother. That I would look after him. I kept my word. I did it the best way I could. By leaving.

Jenny Han

#19. Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.

Vladimir Nabokov

#20. My demons creep like a pedo in a park full of kids. Each one reminding me of the consequences, what I didn't do, or did.

Ken Dereste Dorcely

#21. As parents we also define ourselves by what we bring our attention and presence to. This is easy to forget when daily life feels more like triage. By eliminating some of the clutter in our lives we can concentrate on what we really value, not just what we're buried under, or deluged with.

Kim John Payne

#22. Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

Jared Polis

#23. No one who ever follows their conscience ever does wrong. The consequences may not turn out as we intended; it may prove that we made a mistake. But that is not the same as being wrong.

Robert Harris

#24. COLBIE: He's a man, and they're not smart like us card-carrying vaginas. I think the penis distract them too much, yet they still managed to invent airplanes and TV. Give the guy a break.

Bijou Hunter