Quotes About Promises

Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son.

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

The reason we avoid the word "synergy" is because people generally claim more synergistic benefits than will come. Yes, it exists, but there are so many false promises. Berkshire is full of synergies - we don't avoid synergies, just claims of synergies.

PROMISES means EVERYTHING but after they are broken SORRY means NOTHING

love" comes loaded with promises and commitments that are highly fragile and easily broken.

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

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.

Old Custom, which to-day allows Addresses such as this; When timid lovers breathe their vows, And sing of promised bliss; Emboldens one, who else would fear To make his feelings known...

Dreams aren't real? I say they walk among us, whispering in our ears all their sweet promises and threats, carried in our heads, mind-words, maggots eating at our dead souls. Dreams, memes, gods and monsters, creatures of the id. If they aren't real then what the hell am I?

No amount of promises can guarantee love

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

But then, in the midst of exile, there came promises of return, of a continuation of the interrupted history. There arose a vision of a mysterious person who would expiate the people's guilt on their behalf. And now Jesus' knowledge reaches beyond the "house left desolate", for he goes on: "You will not see me until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!' Ã¢â'¬Â (Lk 13:35). 2.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.

One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

To me, party platforms are contracts with the people.

My own experiences in dealing with "Hollywood" types is that most are pathological liars, ignorant in the ways of literature and art, lacking in common sense, and incredibly arrogant. They will make empty promises, waste a writer's time, screw in moronic ways with his material, and generally distract a writer from accomplishing anything worthwhile.

Voters—here's the real challenge: we don't need empty promises made by politicians whose only goal in life is to get elected or re-elected. We need leaders with attributes that qualify them to lead us through the difficult challenges we're facing.

Why? Because you seduced my mother into bed with empty promises of big acting jobs, got her pregnant, and walked away without paying a dime of child support

You've never seen a politician who's kept his promise. You've never saw a politician who wasn't a liar.....They want you to do what they say because their word is better than that other guy...It's not!...All politicians are assholes.

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered.

Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.