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Quotes About Promise

Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.'
~ Michael Mandelbaum
Though President Obama promised during the 2008 campaign to pass the DREAM Act, he never made it a priority and failed to bring Republicans and Democrats together to do it in his first term.
~ Juan Williams
I'll help repeal Obamacare in my first term, or go home, because you deserve a senator who gets the job done or gets out of the way. Repeal or go home. That's my pledge to you.
~ Phil Gingrey
We are going to serve our full term; there will be no snap election, and we are going to do our best to ensure that 2016 is going to be a good economic year.
~ Enda Kenny
For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
If one accepts the terms of the covenant and obeys God's law, he or she receives the blessings associated with the covenant.
~ Russell M. Nelson
We were promised that we would have Jehovah, Jesus Christ, as our Savior and Redeemer. He would assure that we would all be resurrected. And He would make it possible for us to pass the test of life if we exercised faith in Him by being obedient.
~ Henry B. Eyring
As an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, I testify to you this day that the time will come when every one of us will look into the Savior's loving eyes.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
We promised new benefits to seniors like preventive screening and diabetes testing. We kept that promise.
~ Mike Rogers
Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee, With promise of strength and manhood full and fair!
~ Robert Seymour Bridges
Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.
~ Robert Southey
Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!
~ Robert Stack
Significantly, too, the triumvirs Octavian, Antony and Lepidus, promised to build a temple to Isis and Serapis to win favour with the populace (DC, 47, 15, 4). But the promise was not kept, and the war setting Octavian against Cleopatra's lover would become a war of the gods, between Apollo and 'barking Anubis
~ Robert Turcan
it is this integration between the worlds of the patient and the clinician that carries the most promise.
~ Robert Wachter
The pre-bite dopamine blast you're now getting is the promise of more bliss, and the post-bite drop in dopamine is, in a way, the breaking of the promise—or, at least, it's a kind of biochemical acknowledgment that there was some overpromising. To the extent that you bought the promise—anticipated greater pleasure than would be delivered by the consumption itself—you have been, if not deluded in the strong sense of that term, at least misled.
~ Robert Wright
He asked me when I planned to come back. Always, I said.
~ Roberto Bolano
What a lovely young man," said Estrellita. "And his darling balls are the color of gold." Jan laughed. "It's true," I said. "That means that he's destined for greatness. Golden balls are the mark of a young man capable of . . . great deeds.
~ Roberto Bolano
La casa de Maciste era una promesa y una enfermedad y yo daba vueltas por la promesa y la enfermedad.
~ Roberto Bolano
The time has come At first sight we may feel that a genealogy is an uninspiring way to start the New Testament, but, if we remember God's promises, we will be on the edge of our seats as soon as we read the words: 'A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham.
~ Roberts Vaughan
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
~ Robertson Davies
There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.
~ Robin Hobb
Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.
~ Robin Hobb
I don't know" "When a man says that, it usually means, "No, I won't but from time to time, I'll toy with the idea, so I can pretend i eventually intend to do it.
~ Robin Hobb
To bond to any animal was to promise oneself that future pain
~ Robin Hobb