Quotes About Promises

Marriage doesn't guarantee anything, it doesn't come with perfect settings.

For your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. You rule throughout all generations. The Lord always keeps his promises; he is gracious in all he does. —Psalm 145:13

Has he ever spoken and failed to act? Has he ever promised and not carried it through? —Numbers 23:19

People often hear me exclaim, "Yes!" when I find a coin and ask why I'm so excited. I tell my dime story and explain how touching the special dime in my pocket reminds me to trust God's presence, promises, and love. At other times, it reminds me to love others.

or that he is a talker of idle words of folly or of villainy ..also when he promises or assures to do things that he can not perform; also when that he by frivolity or folly slanders or scorns his neighbor; also when he has any wicked suspicion of thing where he knows of it no truthfulness: these things, and more without number, are sins

When it comes to BULLSHIT…BIG-TIME, MAJOR LEAGUE BULLSHIT… you have to stand IN AWE, IN AWE of the all time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion.

For the fragment of a life, however typical, is not the sample of an even web: promises may not be kept, and an ardent outset may be followed by declension; latent powers may find their long-awaited opportunity; a past error may urge a grand retrieval.

Beware of politicians who tell you they'll do all these wonderful things for you for only a small tax increase. Those tax increases are never as small as you might imagine, and the benefits are always smaller than promised and/or imagined.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

I build on Christ, the rock of ages; on his sure mercies described in his word, and on his promises, all which I know are yea and amen.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

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

It's important to remember that a dictator will not freely relinquish power after having hijacked the constitution and ruled with threats and promises. Sometimes it is necessary to put enough pressure on him that he leaves.

You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time.

Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.

You know how in movies the new president comes in and promises to perform sweeping actions with a stroke of a pen? The Administrative Procedure Act is designed to thwart this sort of maneuver.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them.

Pero las rosas se marchitan y se acabará el verano y las promesas de amor serán rotas. Por eso nunca jures amor, O, si lo haces, recuerda que ninguna promesa dará eternidad a la rosa ni impedirá que el sol se ponga, ni traerá un segundo verano.