Promise
16 quotes.
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Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Edgar Watson Howe
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
Hannah Arendt
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Anonymous
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If you wish to be a sucess in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
Nikita Khruschev
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Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.
Winnie the Pooh
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He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Hannah Arendt
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I thought he was a young man of promise; but it appears he was a young man of promises.
A. J. Balfour (said of Winston Churchill)
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This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
David Brinkley
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America is like an unfaithful lover who promised us more than we got.
Charlotte Bunch
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You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.
Mark Caine
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The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Bill Cosby
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne Dyer
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All promise outruns performance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson