Top 36 Quotes About Pledges
#1. Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my pledges. And I say here tonight that if my predecessor had lived, the vials of wrath would have poured out upon him.
Andrew Johnson
#2. The leader's commandment is made up of pledges to solve local and global problems, and not to create more problems to add to the existing ones.
Israelmore Ayivor
#3. Prayer in Jesus' name puts the crowning crown on God, because it glorifies Him through the Son and it pledges the Son to give to men 'whatsoever and anything' they shall ask.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#4. I will be your God," is an unconditional undertaking on God's part to be "for us" (Rom. 8:31), "on our side" (Ps. 124:1-5), using all his resources for the furthering of the ultimate good of those ("us") to whom he thus pledges himself.
J.I. Packer
#5. The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.
James Joyce
#6. Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.
Anne Campbell
#7. This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.
Lauren Oliver
#8. The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.
Edward Gibbon
#9. A recent study announced that 52 per cent of all teens who sign virginity pledges recant them within twelve months. If I'm on my game.
Tina Fey
#10. The rigidity of those pledges is something I don't like. The circumstances change and you can't be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. It's - who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway?
George H. W. Bush
#11. People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their leaders to fulfill the pledges made to reduce world poverty, especially in Africa, by the year 2015.
Pope Benedict XVI
#12. Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.
Hunter S. Thompson
#13. I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
Park Geun-hye
#15. In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.
Charles Edison
#16. Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#17. But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.
Mitchell Reiss
#18. If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
Susan B. Anthony
#19. Words should be the pledges of work, and, like pawn-tickets, have their market price.
Baltasar Gracian
#20. And if they break their pledges -after the treaty they have made with you- and assail your religion, then fight the heads of disbelief - Lo! They are indeed not entitled to any binding oath.
Qur'an
#21. I could feel something cold stalking my heart. It was fear. They all begin this way, I thought, with pledges of love.
Judith Merkle Riley
#22. Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined.
Brian Baird
#23. Wisconsin Republican, and Senator Patty Murray, a Washington Democrat, both said they were ready to reach a compromise. But those pledges came with
Anonymous
#24. Half the night I was on my knees before those flowers, and I regarded them as the pledges of your love; but those impressions grew fainter, and were at length effaced.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#25. On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
Dan Lipinski
#26. Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community.
Said Musa
#27. In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
Barton Gellman
#28. It is the thoughts of men that are deceitful, Their pledges that are loose.
Euripides
#29. She looks like a cheery girl, the kind who pledges Kai Beta Bullshit and throws mixers on the weekend with the frat boys at Alpha Kappa Douchebag.
J.M. Darhower
#30. Playing along with Guyland may be the only way an individual woman might believe she has a chance at a social life or a relationship. Sometimes it gets pretty crazy, like a sorority requiring that all the pledges sleep with the members of the "brother" fraternity.
Michael Kimmel
#31. Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.
Frances Beinecke
#32. Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.
Howard Zinn
#33. The United States pledges before you-and therefore before the world-its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma-to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#34. My son, from whence this madness, this neglect
Of my commands, and those whom I protect?
Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind
Whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.
Virgil
#35. We said that pledges made in the peace process need to be fulfilled as soon as possible.
Ahmet Davutoglu
#36. It is Sunday. The weekend, that three-day festival of attrition, is done. Sunday is the day of purgation and redress; of tenderised brain cases and see-sawing stomachs and hollow pledges to never, ever get that twisted again.
Colin Barrett