Top 100 Quotes About Broken Promises
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved.
Nikki Rowe
#4. She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.
Jane Austen
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.
Susanna Clarke
#8. 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
#9. Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
Buffalo Bill
#10. 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
#11. This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people,
John Connolly
#12. I'm tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.
Sidney Sheldon
#13. When everything in life is made to be broken----promises, dreams and hearts, all of them--it's the memories of perfect moments that get us through.
Joann Buchanan
#14. 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
#15. But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
Sherman Alexie
#16. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
Chief Joseph
#17. 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
#18. And if, behind closed eyes, Cerris saw a face other than hers, a face so slightly younger, gazing at him sadly across a gulf of lost years and broken promises ... Well, it would never hurt her if she never knew.
Ari Marmell
#19. 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
#20. The wreckage of representative government is strewn with broken promises.
Herbert Hoover
#21. So many broken promises, each day an aborted wish, a lost object, a misplaced unread book, cluttering the room like an attic with discarded possessions.
Anais Nin
#22. We stared at one another, two strangers bound eternally by a shared past of lies and broken promises.
Julie Johnson
#23. Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.
Susan Abulhawa
#24. If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.
Helen Prejean
#25. Unlike the made and broken promises of love, the transactions of employment were absolute. "Love's
Suanne Laqueur
#26. Before she closed the door, she hit me with this one: "I feel like it's November first," she said, "and I'm that discarded jack-o'-lantern whose heart and guts are splattered all over the boulevard of broken promises."
"And a good night to you, too," I said.
Rick Detorie
#27. Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises.
Rick Yancey
#28. Well thank you, me old gobbler,' said Mr. Gum handing over some money that Billy William would later discover to be made out of lies and broken promises.
Andy Stanton
#29. There was a time I believed I was worthy of true love. But now, living in a hell littered with reminders of broken promises, I know what we have is anything but love.
Gia Riley
#30. 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
#31. And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to.
Khadija Rupa
#32. Promises are just promises, made to be broken if they are built on lies. Not
Kat T. Masen
#33. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#40. 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
#42. The suffragettes endured 50 years of broken government promises and not being heard. The press never reported on their activities.
Sarah Gavron
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them ...
Stephen Richards
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness?
Jodi Picoult
#50. I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.
Jodi Picoult
#51. 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
#52. The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken.
Bree Despain
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. It's scary how easy promises were broken.
Jenny Han
#56. people change and promises are broken
Nick Jonas
#57. Some promises are best broken. Trust me on this: I'm a politician.
Alastair Reynolds
#58. I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep.
Judy Blume
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. If you've broken any promises you've made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.
Gina Greenlee
#62. 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
#63. Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies.
Benjamin Franklin
#64. 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
#66. 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
#67. PROMISES means EVERYTHING but after they are broken SORRY means NOTHING
Charlie Higson
#68. I get it. You'd rather have him, broken, than me whole. If that didn't clarify my chances with you, nothing would. But you can't have what you want either, Deuce. I can't be your friend, feeling like this. Give me some time, and then ... Maybe. No promises.
Ann Aguirre
#69. When you have a dream and someone makes promises they keep breaking, it is hard to recover. You lose hope.
Yasmine El Rashidi
#70. Enemies' promises were made to be broken.
Aesop
#71. Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.
Herbert
#72. I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.
Barack Obama
#73. Broken sinners do not need instructions in ethics but a word from God that rescues them from the misery of their sin and restores them to peace with God through faith in His promises.
John T. Pless
#74. Promises are born broken, to fix them you keep them..
Jenim Dibie
#75. God's been fixing broken people ever since sin came into the world. Give Him time. He's not done. God promises He will work for the good in all things. What happened to you isn't beyond His ability to recover.
Dee Henderson
#76. So long there are women around, a cheater will cheat against his promise.
Anthony Liccione
#77. Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
E.W. Howe
#78. Death-bed promises should be broken as lightly as they are seriously made.
-The Gay Old Dog
Edna Ferber
#79. Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.
Colleen Hoover
#80. Maybe all the broken dreams and empty promises the world offered are just reflections of what is within us. Maybe one day we will learn to accept ourselves for all the faults sleeping beneath the footprints we leave behind.
Robert M. Drake
#81. 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
#82. 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
#84. 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
#85. How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?
Rene Cassin
#86. We have to separate promises that may never be kept from God's promises, which will never be broken.
Sheila Walsh
#87. 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
#88. Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.
Barack Obama
#89. 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
#90. So friendship is all about ignoring?
...
Fake smiles?
...
Lies
...
Promises which get broken?
...
Deyth Banger
#91. If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.
Barack Obama
#92. 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
#93. I kept my voice calm. It wasn't hard, I was calm. Anger carries less horror with it, men understand anger. It promises resolution; maybe bloody resolution, but swift.
Mark Lawrence
#94. My mascara a mess, harsh words for your princess
Boy, you and your promises
If your goal was to love, you scored an epic miss
Now you'll just have memories
Sian Reynolds
#95. Pain and misery are two different words, which both hurt.
Auliq Ice
#96. At times,
trust is bound to be broken,
promises are bound not to be kept,
hearts are bound to be hurt,
mistakes are bound to be make.
You are also bound to meet a person at their worst in order for you to confirm that you want to be part of their lives.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#97. To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.
Mason Cooley
#99. God she hated the dance. A blow to the cheek one minute and discussing a romantic getaway the next. It was the one step forward, two steps back waltz. She wanted to scream. Sitting on the side of the bed, Claire allowed herself tears and swallowed
Aleatha Romig
#100. Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols disappoint us.
Joan D. Chittister
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