Top 67 Quotes About Broken Promise
#1. What's the first impression you have of a new place? Is it the first meal you eat? The first time you have an ice cream cone? The first person you meet? The first night you spend in your new bed in your new home? The first broken promise?
Lisa See
#2. The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise.
Zac Goldsmith
#3. Every road I walked would take me down to the sea
With every broken promise in my sack
And every love would always send the ship of my heart
Over the rolling sea
Sting
#4. A mysterious ability, a broken promise, a life changed forever ...
Kim Hornsby
#5. My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.
Hope Solo
#6. Chipper intuited that this feeling of futility would be a fixture in his life. A dull waiting and then a broken promise, a panicked realization of how late it was.
This futility had let's call it a flavor.
Jonathan Franzen
#7. My whole life has been one big broken promise.
Sara Zarr
#9. As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#10. Nothing in my life could prepare me for the utter devastation that three-letter word held at this moment. He had given his heart to another. Another broken promise, the one that carried the most hurt.
Ashlan Thomas
#11. Better a broken promise than none at all.
Mark Twain
#12. He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he'd come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can't be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay.
Charlotte Eriksson
#14. Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise.
Anthony Liccione
#15. Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.
Susan Abulhawa
#16. Jake had never felt like such a fool for keeping a promise. He'd broken plenty of others he should have kept. Why had he kept one he should have broken?
Randy Alcorn
#17. I'm broken, and no one can fix it. I've tried. I'm still trying. I can't love anyone because it's not fair to anyone who loves me back. I'll never hurt you ... But I can't promise I won't pick you apart, piece by piece, until you're in a thousand pieces just like me.
Jennifer Niven
#18. I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely
to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections.
Miguel De Cervantes
#20. Love, a promise delivered already broken.
Lisa Unger
#21. Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.
Craig Kilborn
#22. Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.
Colleen Hoover
#23. I made a promise. The kind of promise you don't break because, if you break it you've broken part of yourself, maybe the most important part.
Rick Yancey
#24. Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!
Friedrich Schiller
#25. Take a deep breath and take this to heart; God has nothing to do with broken promises. When He says, I promise, mark it down it's going to happen.
James MacDonald
#28. The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.
Aaron Sorkin
#29. I've broken the worst promise I've ever made to myself, to never fall in love again.
Addison Moore
#30. That's because it was the right thing to do. You followed your heart, even though it might get broken. You let it lead you to the path. I've found my path, Dad. Blake's someone I'll never regret. I can't promise how it'll turn out, but my heart can't make any other choice.
Debra Anastasia
#31. You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.
Catherynne M Valente
#32. But even as every promise was broken, the party kept on gaining followers. Many were idealists, some were opportunists, others thugs. They displayed astonishing faith and almost fanatical conviction, sometimes even after they themselves had ended up being devoured by the party machinery. A
Frank Dikotter
#33. The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#34. To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.
Mason Cooley
#35. There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.
Lauren DeStefano
#36. That's how hearts get broken, you know. When you believe in promises.
Kathleen Glasgow
#37. My heart is broken;
my spirit's gone,
I broke my lover's heart,
I made promises,
I broke them all.
The end was near,
I've crossed to the other side,
My heart is broken, my spirit's gone,
I made promises, I broke them all.
Quetzal
#39. I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.
Shane Carruth
#40. Is there any reason why you should not have faith in God? Has God ever broken one of His promises? I defy any infidel or unbeliever to place a finger on a single promise of God ever made and failed to fulfill.
Dwight L. Moody
#41. Because i promise you, i will pick up every broken little piece of you, every single fucking piece, Grace, and for the rest of my fucking life i will put you back together
Christine Zolendz
#42. While we fight poverty in the Gulf, we also have to fight poverty across America. We should begin by returning to a promise once kept and now broken: If you work full-time, you shouldn't have to raise your children in poverty.
John Edward
#43. My daughter breaks both her wrists jumping off of a swing. Her friend, who is five, told her to jump off of it. I promise nothing will happen, she said. But why did she promise that? she wails later at the hospital.
Jenny Offill
#44. When a Promise of Leadership is neglected or unfulfilled, trust is broken, engagement erodes, and performance suffers.
William A. Adams
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. How Opulent the building had felt after my own parents' bland box of suburbia - one day, I promise, I'm going to live in a house like this. Another promise I've broken; at least that one was only to myself.
David Mitchell
#50. When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.
Madeleine L'Engle
#51. 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
#52. Deceit, Deceive, Decide just what you believe ... I see faith in your eyes, Never you hear the discouraging lies. I hear faith in your cries ... Broken is the promise, Betrayal ... The healing hand held back by the deepened nail ... Follow the god that failed.
James Hetfield
#53. When two hearts become one,
It cannot be undone.
A promise has been made
And cannot be broken or swayed.
For this love will last an eternity and will not fade.
Charlene M. Martin
#54. 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
#55. So long there are women around, a cheater will cheat against his promise.
Anthony Liccione
#56. My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.
Mahatma Gandhi
#57. 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
#58. I can't explain, maybe it isn't something that needs explaining, how the sight of a broken cage just puts you up on stilts. The promise that the cage will always be empty, that its days as a jailhouse are done.
Helen Oyeyemi
#59. Never make a promise which you think is hard to keep. Never make a promise though!!
Anamika Mishra
#60. Trust is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing.
Drake
#61. Or else she stayed in and nursed a mood with which she was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace of mind. It was not despair; but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promise broken and unfulfilled.
Kate Chopin
#62. All I can off you are painful memories and my broken soul, but I love you, and if you'll allow it, I promise to always love you. If that's enough for you, then, yes, I'm back.
Lisa Desrochers
#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. After ten years of slavery, Arin knew obedience in its many forms. The fear of pain, the gritty promise to oneself of vengeance. Hopelessness. A grinding monotony broken just often enough by the strap or fist.
Marie Rutkoski
#65. The promise is that again and again from the garbage the scattered feathers the ashes and broken bodies something new and beautiful may be born
John Berger
#66. Enemies' promises were made to be broken.
Aesop
#67. As a leader, your word is only as good as your last promise kept or broken.
B.J. Gallagher
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