Quotes About Promises Being Broken

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#4. You just told me you didn't intend to love me. You didn't want to love me. You got yourself arrested to keep yourself away from me. That's not love. That's a compulsion. And, by the way, kudos on coming up with the worst pickup line of all time.

Emily McKay

#5. Science and art are the handmaids of religion.

Francois Delsarte

#6. With patient and persistent, we possess what we want.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Muhammad Ali

#8. You know, he likes me because I'm his son. I have to go long and far to find someone who knows me just as me, rather than me the songwriter or whatever.

Paul Westerberg

#9. It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content.

Michael A. Stackpole

#10. Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like crystals growing, or minds changing, or leaves turning. The trick is to keep an eye peeled, so they don't slip by unappreciated.

Ken Kesey

#11. My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women

John Hersey

#12. I think that's what a fresh start is all about. Not ignoring the past, but seeing it through the eyes of God, through the eyes of grace. Knowing where we've been and where we're going. A fresh start isn't about forgetting; it's about perspective.

Susan May Warren

#13. Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#14. That is a sexist and, if I may dare say so, ungallant slander upon the fair sex, and I am astonished to hear it coming from your mouth.

George R R Martin

#15. Attitude is that litmus test which differentiates a knower from a doer. Knowers have only the skills; doers have the skills and the will to do what they know!

Israelmore Ayivor

#16. We didn't have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn't waste an afternoon on it

Betty White

#17. The suffragettes endured 50 years of broken government promises and not being heard. The press never reported on their activities.

Sarah Gavron