Words And Promises Quotes

#1. Trust is rebuilt by focusing not on what the other person did or did not do but on critiquing one's own behavior, improving one's trustworthiness, and focusing attention not on words and promises but on actions, attitudes, and ways of being.

Kenneth Cloke

#2. The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

Dmitry Medvedev

#3. If it cannot be argued that a city has breached a federal or state environmental law, then surely it's committed some form of discrimination. If discrimination cannot be plausibly alleged, well, federal and state constitutions are full of words and promises that might have been violated.

Anonymous

#4. What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

Haruki Murakami

#5. Europe and America should judge Georgia's leadership on the basis of their actions, not just their words and promises. Otherwise Saakashvili will transform Georgia into a dictatorship.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

#6. She hadn't dreamed a time would ever come when someone might want to emulate her talk or behavior. Consequently, it made her feel tight and strange inside to hear her words on the kid's lips. A small part of her was astonished and secretly flattered. But a larger part was appalled.

Maggie Osborne

#7. We splinter into a thousand pieces in her kitchen, becoming more together than we were apart. More than we were alone. With whispered promises and words of love, we exchange hearts.

Kennedy Ryan

#8. God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he comes to us in this world there would be these powerful words and images to describe the promises and the pleasures of our covenant relationship with him through Christ.

John Piper

#9. If all we're doing is flinging words and emotions in all directions without any real consideration for the specific ways the enemy is targeting us and the promises of God that apply to us, we're mostly just wasting our time.

Priscilla Shirer

#10. Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.

Edouard Rene De Laboulaye

#11. Chain-smoking, chapter by chapter, all the silly things the words mean, all the false promises, all the second-hand notions and time-worn philosophies.

Ray Bradbury

#12. People from context cultures tend to view personal bonds and informal agreements as far more binding than any formal contract. People from content cultures don't believe the deal is finalized until everyone has signed on the dotted line. And therein lies the potential for conflict.

Carol Kinsey Goman

#13. Now and forever, I'll remember all the promises still unbroken and think about all the words between us that never needed to be spoken.

Carole King

#14. I lie in the dirt and pretend his words about my love don't hurt, but they slice me like the ice cold winds of winter. It takes all of the power I have left to lie there quietly and not remind him of the promises he has not kept.

Inger Iversen

#15. I love him who scatters golden words in advance of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History

Libba Bray

#17. 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

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

Auliq Ice

#19. It's an old copy and it's starting to fall apart, but I hold on to my Handbook because nothing else makes promises like that around here, promises with these words burning inside them: honor, duty, and try.

Tupelo Hassman

#20. Good appearance doesn't make a real man. The important thing is to do your best and keep your promises. A real man should show his faith in actions (rather) than words.

Yunho

#21. But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?

Elisabeth Elliot

#22. And truths, these days, are spoken
The same way promises are made,
With gritted teeth and crossed fingers.

Sanhita Baruah

#23. Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do.

Ian McGuire

#24. The leaves do fad and fall away, / Berries rot and sheaves decay; / The deer is fled back to the field. / That is all your promises yield. / All wind and words, your vows, I see, / Are barren as the fruitless tree.

Lauren Willig

#25. 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

#26. But honestly? What women need?" Dean paused to take a sip of his coffee. "Actions. Not words. Sorry doesn't mean shit, begging doesn't mean shit, and promises don't mean shit.

Priscilla Glenn

#27. The man of imagination who turns to art for release and fulfilment of his baby promises contends with the sky through the layers of demoded words and shapes.

William Carlos Williams

#28. Every politician brings in a wide range of context, promises and characters to bring his mission of you to listen to his words and vote for him and later he won't listen to you at any range.

Auliq Ice

#29. Words are foolish. Promises are useless. Anyone can say anything to get what it is they desire. Believe in actions and actions alone.

Renee Ahdieh

#30. 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

#31. Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

George R R Martin

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

Chief Joseph

#33. There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.

Alice Hoffman

#34. We find hope in a hostile place when we focus on the goodness of God as revealed in His promises. In other words, hope and security come when we - like the Israelites - acknowledge God's love for us.

Elizabeth George

#35. Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

Roger L'Estrange

#36. One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.

Harold Holzer

#37. For I am the kind of dangerous dreamer who executes all his reveries, wishes, words, promises, plans. The wildest and the lightest. A wish for me is not a game: it's a creation.

Anais Nin

#38. Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Stephen Covey

#39. Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

Vladimir Lenin

#40. O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely,

William Shakespeare