Quotes About Promise

It occurred to me that his words had a shadow. Or teeth and claws, and blood. Some kind of invisible whip. How words can be a trap, a trick and a net, not for butterflies or birds, or lions! The things that words promise.

All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron's. He came to power promising not to 'bang on about Europe' and ended up having the continent's name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.

There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.

I am not going to quit politics until I fulfill the promise made to Balasaheb of making a Shiv Sainik the chief minister of Maharashtra. I will do it.

I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.

I think I've shown that all the promises I made that I was going to win races were real and not bull.

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

President Obama ran a campaign in 2008 that was entirely expected from a non-incumbent. You promise, and you imply that if you elect me, everything good is going to happen.

I spent my 18th birthday in jail. Charges were dropped as long as I promised never to return to the state of Kansas. My parents took me home to Louisiana. I lasted there a week. Then I ran away.

It looks like the future's really bright.

I believe that my future is bright.

My future is righteousness.

We can make this country the garden of Eden.

I am committed to delivering for Georgia.

I didn't get married to get divorced.

I've always said I'm going to get married only once.

I'm the kind of guy that when I get married, I get married for life.

I don't see myself getting married again, but if I do, it will be forever.

Amaravati will not be a ghost city.

I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.

And when people give me their word, I listen to them.

Commitment to one other person in life is glorious.

I'm gonna be something one of these days.

As someone who comes from a family of lifers (along with my wife), I just want to say, flat out... Marriage is a really good deal.