Quotes About Promises That Are Broken

#1. people change and promises are broken

Nick Jonas

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Jodi Picoult

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

Jodi Picoult

#6. 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

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

Bree Despain

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

Susanna Clarke

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Jenny Han

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

Stephen Richards

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

Alastair Reynolds

#14. 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

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

Judy Blume

#16. 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

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

Buffalo Bill

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.

Haruki Murakami

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Kat T. Masen

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. People lie. Promises are broken. A

Rick Riordan

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

Nikki Rowe

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Jane Austen

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

Khadija Rupa

#34. 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

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

Shannon A. Thompson

#36. 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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sarah Gavron

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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