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Quotes About Promise

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.
~ Barack Obama
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
~ Barack Obama
I'll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.
~ Akshay Kumar
In 1980, a woman promised her dying sister to change how Americans thought about breast cancer. Thirty years later, the result - the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation - is one of the nation's largest non-profits, and one of the most successful triumphs in public health marketing and changing health habits.
~ Charles Duhigg
Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
~ Sitting Bull
Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.
~ Naomi Wolf
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
~ Herbert Croly
California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.
~ Christopher Isherwood
There's nothing more damaging than an irate moviegoer who hasn't seen what the film trailer promised.
~ Saul Bass
Petty thievery is a more profitable job than pool hustling, which it resembles, requires far less talent and training, and is equally devoid of promise.
~ Robert Byrne
Forever, it was just soccer - passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of my energy. I want to be my best for my country, but I also made a really big promise and choice to be the best in my marriage. That has not always been the easiest thing to manage.
~ Abby Wambach
Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you'll create credit... So you reach a certain point that that you can't do that anymore... There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred?
~ Ray Dalio
All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.
~ John Podhoretz
The Energy Transition Act fundamentally changes the dynamic in New Mexico. This legislation is a promise to future generations of New Mexicans, who will benefit from both a cleaner environment and a more robust energy economy with exciting career and job opportunities.
~ Michelle Lujan Grisham
Seoul promises to make a big investment in the transition of ecology and civilization that will transform the green crisis into a green opportunity.
~ Park Won-soon
The radical power of 'queer' always came from its inclusivity. But that inclusivity offers a false promise of equality that does not translate to the lived reality of most queer people.
~ Jenna Wortham
Our projects are transparent and speedy. We act what we say.
~ Shehbaz Sharif
On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
~ Bob Barr
One thing I have always promised is to be open and transparent and to treat employees and partners with respect and integrity.
~ Brian Krzanich
We're underscoring to everybody the promise at the heart of the Affordable Care Act, which is quality, affordable health care coverage available in a transparent marketplace for the first time ever.
~ Denis McDonough
When I was elected to Congress, I made a commitment to my constituents that my office would set the standard to be open and transparent.
~ Elise Stefanik
It was hard to force people to give up their rights to apartments, and predictably, this radical Utopian ideal failed. But it does illustrate how the concept of social injustice in a communist society works: those who have are exceptions, and they should feel guilty and ashamed - the others are entitled to have, too, because it has been promised to them.
~ Slavenka Drakuli?
I'm forever yours, temporarily.
~ Smash Mouth
There is no such thing as the Lord not meeting your need. There are no "if's" or "mar's" ; His promises are all "shah's." All things are possible to him that believeth. Oh, the name of Jesus! There is power in that name to meet every condition of human need.
~ Smith Wigglesworth