Quotes About Promises Broken

#1. 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

#2. This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people,

John Connolly

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. So long there are women around, a cheater will cheat against his promise.

Anthony Liccione

#7. 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

#8. Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

E.W. Howe

#9. Death-bed promises should be broken as lightly as they are seriously made.
-The Gay Old Dog

Edna Ferber

#10. 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

#11. Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.

Colleen Hoover

#12. 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

#13. The wreckage of representative government is strewn with broken promises.

Herbert Hoover

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Bad promises are better broken than kept.

Abraham Lincoln

#17. But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

Sherman Alexie

#18. 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

#19. Promises are born broken, to fix them you keep them..

Jenim Dibie

#20. 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

#21. I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.

Barack Obama

#22. 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

#23. Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

Aesop

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Chief Joseph

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

Yasmine El Rashidi

#28. 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

#29. Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.

C.J. Hill

#30. 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

#31. Promises," his gran had said once, her sour commentary on the whole affair, "are like pie crusts - meant to be broken.

John Harvey

#32. 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

#33. That's how hearts get broken, you know. When you believe in promises.

Kathleen Glasgow

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. Don't make any promises that you can't keep

Ann Marie Aguilar

#38. To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

Mason Cooley

#39. Unlike the made and broken promises of love, the transactions of employment were absolute. "Love's

Suanne Laqueur

#40. 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

#41. Pain and misery are two different words, which both hurt.

Auliq Ice

#42. We stared at one another, two strangers bound eternally by a shared past of lies and broken promises.

Julie Johnson

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.

Barack Obama

#46. So friendship is all about ignoring?
...

Fake smiles?
...

Lies
...

Promises which get broken?
...

Deyth Banger

#47. Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.

Barack Obama

#48. 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

#49. We have to separate promises that may never be kept from God's promises, which will never be broken.

Sheila Walsh

#50. 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

#51. Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.

Susan Abulhawa

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them ...

Stephen Richards

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

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

Sarah Gavron

#61. He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

William Shakespeare

#62. 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

#63. Her kiss was a good-bye and a promise and a dream.

Shannon A. Thompson

#64. 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

#65. Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness?

Jodi Picoult

#66. She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

Jane Austen

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved.

Nikki Rowe

#71. People lie. Promises are broken. A

Rick Riordan

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. Promises are just promises, made to be broken if they are built on lies. Not

Kat T. Masen

#75. 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

#76. And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to.

Khadija Rupa

#77. Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Buffalo Bill

#78. 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

#79. PROMISES means EVERYTHING but after they are broken SORRY means NOTHING

Charlie Higson

#80. 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

#81. Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Jonathan Swift

#82. I'm tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

Sidney Sheldon

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies.

Benjamin Franklin

#86. 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

#87. If you've broken any promises you've made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.

Gina Greenlee

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. 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

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

Judy Blume

#92. Some promises are best broken. Trust me on this: I'm a politician.

Alastair Reynolds

#93. people change and promises are broken

Nick Jonas

#94. It's scary how easy promises were broken.

Jenny Han

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.

Susanna Clarke

#98. The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken.

Bree Despain

#99. 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

#100. I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.

Jodi Picoult