Quotes About Promises

He promised all those things men promise when they are far away and can feel the phone lines stretching too tight, the wires and cables rapidly unraveling from their braids, snapping, recoiling, collapsing the poles along the way.

In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'.

But we must never read such promises, or anything in the Old Testament, as if Jesus had not come and the New Testament had not been written.

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick.

Learn to believe Christ better than His strokes; Himself and His promises better than His glooms .

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

I had a choice: I could believe the lies of the devil, in which case I was on my way to suicide, or I could believe in the promises of God, and be taken through my time of trial.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

Every time I open my Bible I will read it as the Word of 'God, that cannot lie;' and when I get a promise or a threatening, I will either rejoice or tremble because I know that these stand fast.

Because you promised? But you've promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till death do us part.

Well, you know, that's good of you to say, but it's not always wise to make promises. There can be a lot more involved in keeping them than it seems at the time.

Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past,you must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future.

He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself.

Don Vito Corleone was a man to whom everybody came for help, and never were they disappointed. He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself.

God's delays are not God's denials.

I don't know much about ladies' judgements," said the old man. "It does seem to me that when a lady makes a promise she ought to keep it." "According to that," said Kate, "if I were engaged to a man, and found that he was a murderer, I still ought to marry him.

I don't think half so much of Parliament folk as some do. They're for promising everything before they's elected; but not one in twenty of 'em is as good as his word when he gets there.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says wile he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

You know what a clever woman my mother is. "What good," she says to me, "are all his promises of tablecloths and handkerchiefs when he should be sending you cash? The Angel of Death doesn't wait for a man to buy his shrouds…

He had expected that traditionally Republican Vermont would give him too drearily easy a task in preaching Trowbridge. What he found was a dismaying preference for the theoretically Democratic Buzz Windrip. And that preference, Doremus perceived, wasn't even a pathetic trust in Windrip's promises of Utopian bliss for everyone in general. It was a trust in increased cash for the voter himself, and for his family, very much in particular.

Most people are willing to promise you a lot. A few are those who can promise you a little, just as much as they can.