You Broke Your Promise Quotes

#1. Vain man is apt to think we were merely intended for the world's propagation and to keep its human inhabitants sweet and clean; but, by their leaves, had we the same literature he would find our brains as fruitful as our bodies.

Hannah Woolley

#2. 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

#3. The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. He broke his promise. He said he would never hurt me, he said he would never leave. Against my better judgement, he made me believe in forever again... until now.

L.M. Trio

#5. Life is like a game, once your piece is on the board there is no leaving until you have finished. It does not matter how you finished just that you pass the line ...

Samuel Train

#6. In high school, I stole a six-foot submarine sandwich from a banquet room in front of several hundred people. I did it because I was in marching band, and we were promised food if we played, and they broke their promise. It was my first and only heist, motivated by justice and hunger.

Greg Van Eekhout

#7. One of the reasons my father ... became a dentist was so he could always be home for dinner and spend weekends with his family. At one point he had thought about being a musician, but he said, I'm not going to do that because I'd be on the road all the time and I wouldn't be with my family.

Dean Ornish

#8. Whatever's broke, he says, I can fix it. I'll fix it all. I promise.

Moira Young

#9. He broke open the first of the meal packets, and inspected it without enthusiasm. The name on the label - SPACETASTIES - was enough to put him off. And he had grave doubts about the promise printed underneath: 'Guaranteed crumbless'.

Arthur C. Clarke

#10. What's wrong?" Blayne finally asked.
"Nothing," Gwen answered. "I'm just sitting here. Staring." Maybe hoping a bear would wander out of the woods to say "hi and I'm sorry I broke my promise.

Shelly Laurenston

#11. I made a promise. I broke that. I will never break again. I promise. I broke down.

Anonymous

#12. You young people don't appreciate things, she'd say. You don't know what we had to go through, just to get you where you are. Look at him, slicing up the carrots. Don't you know how many women's lives, how many women's bodies, the tanks had to roll over just to get that far?

Margaret Atwood

#13. I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

Mary Gordon

#14. Leaders exude courage by sacrificing their popularity for their values and beliefs.

Noel DeJesus

#15. I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

Fergus Henderson

#16. Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

Caroline Pratt

#17. To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Pablo Picasso

#18. Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

Alexander Pope

#19. Damien is a friend.
Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

William Gibson

#20. For youth, the moon is a promise of all those tremendous things which await it, for older people a memento that the promise was never kept, a reminder of all that broke and went to pieces ...
And what is moonshine? Secondhand sunshine. Diluted, counterfeit.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#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. Like the Party he had joined too late, too young, Chan was a lost claim check, a series of time lapse photos of a promise as it broke.

Michael Chabon

#23. My husband is from Finland, so every so often I'll throw a Scandinavian-themed party.

Sarah Rafferty