
Top 30 When Promises Are Broken Quotes
#1. The suffragettes endured 50 years of broken government promises and not being heard. The press never reported on their activities.
Sarah Gavron
#2. He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.
George R R Martin
#3. 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
#4. She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.
Susanna Clarke
#5. The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken.
Bree Despain
#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. I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.
Jodi Picoult
#8. Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness?
Jodi Picoult
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them ...
Stephen Richards
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to.
Khadija Rupa
#18. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.
Jane Austen
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved.
Nikki Rowe
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Promises are just promises, made to be broken if they are built on lies. Not
Kat T. Masen
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