The Promise Quotes

#1. In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who's often willing and able to embrace whatever role is necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, useable content.

Kristina Halvorson

#2. There was the promise of a very fine day.

Saumya Kaushik...

#3. When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.

George McGovern

#4. I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me and remind them of all the promise I see in them.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#5. After all, what is hell but the eternal absence of God? To exist in a hellish state is to be denied forever the promise of hope, of redemption, of love. To those who have been forsaken, hell has no geography.

John Connolly

#6. I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

Jon Krakauer

#7. Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

Bryant H. McGill

#8. We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.

Wendy Davis

#9. What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.

Matt Taibbi

#10. And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.

Thomas Goodwin

#11. It's terribly important that we extend the promise of equality that the Supreme Court and that the district court articulated in the DOMA case and in the Perry case to all Americans in all 50 states.

David Boies

#12. Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb of corporate elites.

Rick Perlstein

#13. They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

Bella Abzug

#14. The girl in the red coat would remain the the sweet but sore point in my biography: the promise never kept; the mystery that would always remain a mystery. And yet, I regretted nothing. Someday it would be less painful. Someday my heart would be light again. I had to only let it happen.

Nicolas Barreau

#15. Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.

David Gemmell

#16. Renewing the promise of America begins with upholding the dignity of human life.

George W. Bush

#17. There is a vast gap between the promise of the job and its reality. When we enter the ignoble world of work, we are soon shocked at the humiliations we encounter there.

Tom Hodgkinson

#18. Mother seemed to wish that she'd never had a childhood, perhaps because all delight was fleeting and because the promise of one day was not fulfilled even just until the next.

Dean Koontz

#19. Sin was conquered on the cross. [Christ's] death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph!

Billy Graham

#20. I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

#21. For all the promise of digital media to bring people together, I still believe that the most sincere, lasting powers of human connection come from looking directly into someone else's eyes, with no screen in between.

Howard Schultz

#22. Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.

John Kline

#23. We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.

John F. Kerry

#24. They went on working for the promise of a pension and their "health benefits," which was ironic in that almost any other job would benefit their health better than any doctor's pills.

James Baldwin

#25. True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society.

Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

#26. The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.

Kara Walker

#27. Never believed in this shit, but now, I'm thinkin' I fell in love with the promise of you the first time I saw you.

Kristen Ashley

#28. The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.

Charles B. Rangel

#29. Hope is assurance of the promise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. Reason lives on the systematization of the past, but Faith is the promise of the future.

Christopher Dawson

#31. Despite the promise of four days of sun and overly sweet wine, Richard was sporting a sour puss. But then that was to be expected - he sold books for a living, after all.

Charlie Hill

#32. Adventures are funny things. They always begin with the unexpected, but they always end wit the promise of adventures yet to comestoriai

Wayne Thomas Batson

#33. God offers to His children the promise of a glorious and infinite existence and has provided a way for us to progress in knowledge and glory until we receive a fulness of joy. He has promised us all that He has.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#34. The promise feels like a death sentence, a cell door slamming shut, a stone around my neck that's destined to carry me down

Rick Yancey

#35. I did not live Chloe for her body, I loved her body for the promise of who she was. It was a most inspiring promise

Alain De Botton

#36. It's a fine line to find that balance: to show people enough to give them the promise of something unique, and something they want to see, but at the same time make sure that when they show up for the movie, they're surprised by what they eventually get.

Joseph Kosinski

#37. We have reached one of the great stages in the adventure of thought ... We are required to see the universe with new eyes, and it is because it makes such demands and also holds out the promise of realizing them, that the study of science is so supremely worth while.

J. W. N. Sullivan

#38. The moment God put a dream in your heart, the moment the promise took root, God not only started it, but He set a completion date.

Joel Osteen

#39. Ah yes, jobs. Once upon a time, souls were traded for immortality or riches. Now we are bought and sold with the promise of jobs. The human spirit is devalued currency. How the devil must be laughing.

Jamie Delano

#40. Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#41. And wasn't that what love was all about? Not the immediate bone-melting lust and roller-coaster emotions, but the promise of it all lasting, mellowing into something that got stronger, better every year.

Jane Davitt

#42. Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side.

Ally Carter

#43. The best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

Jose Saramago

#44. She was night without the promise of dawn, darkness without light.

John Connolly

#45. You kissed me yes, But it was not just goodnight even then I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you could kiss me like that forever.

Nicholas Sparks

#46. Hope is the moonlight filtering through the trees,
Hope is the silent prayer that we make in distress,
Hope is the promise that we make to ourselves,
Hope is the happiness that we visualize,
Hope is the horizon that we reach, if we try!

Balroop Singh

#47. A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.

Wendell Berry

#48. There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.

Obert Skye

#49. Flirting is the promise of sex with no guarantee. A successful brand, then, is the promise and guarantee of a mind shattering experience each and every time.

Keith Ferrazzi

#50. When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

Herbert Croly

#51. But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father.

Donald Cargill

#52. In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.

Mark Sanford

#53. Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

Nicholas Sparks

#54. The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet.

Timothy Noah

#55. But folks always underestimate what the promise of a lifetime of starvation, powerlessness, and humiliation can provoke in a young person's character.

Junot Diaz

#56. And the time to say it was days ago, perhaps weeks ago, but it was never said. Like the fireflies she used to keep in Mason jars, the promise of its telling had glowed intermittently.
"I love you," he said. And now the fireflies shone with a constant light.

Kathy Hepinstall

#57. People make promises that they have every intention of keeping at the time but when it comes to cashing in, suddenly the promise loses all value.

Mercy Cortez

#58. We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas.

Yoshihiko Noda

#59. And it was in the mitigated midnight of these approximations that she had discerned the promise of her dawn.

Henry James

#60. Love is Chocolate The unprocessed kind. Dark. Bitter. But always with the promise of sweet perfection. All it takes is sugar- that certain someone's kiss, flavored with possibility. If Dani has taught me anything, it's that life is brimming with possibilities. Every single day brings choices.

Ellen Hopkins

#61. Can you be disappointed by the loss of something that had only begun to flicker with the promise of existence?

Abigail Johnson

#62. Considering the great heritage in music that we have - the work of the giants of the past, the present, and the promise of those who are to come - I feel that we have every reason to face the future optimistically.

John Coltrane

#63. To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a free society and indispensable to a strong middle class.

Thomas Perez

#64. I am the promise of new beginnings and thankful for those told and untold!

Annette Whitaker-Moss

#65. I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

John Mayer

#66. Trust God where you cannot see Him. Do not try to penetrate the cloud He brings over you; rather look to the bow that is on it. The mystery is God's; the promise is yours.

John Ross Macduff

#67. 'Star Trek's insight lay in the promise of going to the stars together, with well-defined stereotypes who could supply the emotional frame for the potentially jarring truths of these distant places.

Gregory Benford

#68. The promise of a kiss will carry us forward.

David Levithan

#69. The discovery of one star is the promise of another.

Robert Aris Willmott

#70. You can't be living always in the promise of the clouds; it must rain now. Leave the talking and live by walking ... It will yield an indelible impact!

Israelmore Ayivor

#71. I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America.

Ted Cruz

#72. It was in grasping the reality of his divine parentage as a son of God, as well as his relationship with Christ and the promise of eternal life, that Moses was able to resist the challenge presented by Satan.

David S. Baxter

#73. The grievous burden of remorse shouted shame, that a criminally blind ideology could reject the promise of birthright, then mangle the exuberant vigour of life, designed by nature to celebrate only creative abundance.

Janny Wurts

#74. Catalysts offer the promise of making chemical transformations far less polluting.

Robert H. Grubbs

#75. Throughout any given season of 'The Bachelor,' the women exclaim that the experience is like a fairy tale. They suffer the machinations of reality television, pursuing - along with several other women, often inebriated - the promise of happily ever after.

Roxane Gay

#76. The promise of the Internet has always been that it was gonna be this unprecedentedly potent instrument of liberation and democratization. It would let you explore things and meet people who you wouldn't otherwise get to know, in completely free and unconstrained ways.

Glenn Greenwald

#77. Settle this in your heart: Whether I am up or down, the Lord Jesus is the same. Whether I sing or sigh, the promise is true and the Promiser is faithful. Whether I stand on the summit or am hidden in the vale the covenant stands fast and everlasting love abides.

Charles Spurgeon

#78. A brand is two words: the 'Promise' you telegraph, and the 'Experience' you deliver.

Donald J. Trump

#79. These were the rare cases in which you gave permission to a stranger to enter your personal space. You trusted the expertise proffered, and enjoyed the promise that the opaque maneuvers of this stranger's hands would yield a result. The tailor, simply by doing his job that day, comforted me.

Teju Cole

#80. The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready.

Matt Mullenweg

#81. Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said.
"Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

John Green

#82. I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

#83. Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift .

Martin Luther

#84. Beauty is the promise of happiness. And the only happiness is action.
...
Fate is the path of least action.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#85. No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life.

T.D. Jakes

#86. The promise of easy money is but a wolf's trap laid out for sheep seeking taller grass.

James Jean-Pierre

#87. Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets. All these also did not receive what was promised but greeted it from afar, and then there are all those who did not much believe in the promise to begin with, and it is not always possible to tell the two apart.

Frederick Buechner

#88. She was the promise of youth, of being fearless ... of being alive. She was everything I couldn't have and shouldn't want, but the more she taunted me, the more my resolve crumbled.

Ella Frank

#89. We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.

Simon Schama

#90. To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.

Albert Gubay

#91. Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#92. The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

Philip Yancey

#93. But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance.

Terry Pratchett

#94. As she reached into her cloak for her own hidden dagger, she realized he might have been handsome were it not for the promise of violence in his pine-green eyes.

Sarah J. Maas

#95. When government gets out of the way, the people achieve great things because of the promise of great rewards.

Monica Crowley

#96. Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Anthony Powell

#97. It's better than sex. Reading delivers on the promise that sex raises but hardly ever can fulfill -- getting larger cause you're entering another person's language, cadence, heart and mind.

Chris Kraus

#98. Even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

Richard Paul Evans

#99. The road ahead is unknown to all. I cannot offer you wisdom or guidance. Only the promise that I will never leave you.

Andrea Cremer

#100. The promise is that again and again from the garbage the scattered feathers the ashes and broken bodies something new and beautiful may be born

John Berger