Quotes by Promise When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. Eric Hoffer evilgivingpromise When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once? Eva Braun doemeanpromise Not a frog, I hope?” he asked…She shook her head. “No. And if it was I wouldn’t kiss it, I promise you. I might kiss a prince if I could be sure he’d turn into a frog, but not the other way around. Eva Ibbotson kissingmightpromise When we remember presidents who didn't fulfill their promises - for instance George H.W. Bush saying no new taxes or Barack Obama saying he would close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay - we remember those because they're the exceptions, not the rule. Evan Osnos saying-nopresidentpromise If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises. Evan Esar apologyexcusepromise I couldn't stop throwing theories at [Jimmi Simpson], and eventually I was like, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I will stop talking about the show [Westworlds]. I promise." Evan Rachel Wood sorrytalkingpromise And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises. Ernest Hemingway treatspromise If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story. Esther Hicks intentionstoriespromise It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. Evelyn Waugh curiosityliteraturepromise We see, from almost every conceivable angle throughout the Scripture, that there is no doctrine more clearly taught than that it is God's will to heal all who have need of healing, and that they may fulfill the number of their days according to His promise. F. F. Bosworth healingnumberspromise Real faith rejoices in the promise of God as if it saw the deliverance and was enjoying it. F. F. Bosworth sawsrealpromise When we have learned the process of faith for receiving healing, we have learned how to receive everything else God promises us in His Word. F. F. Bosworth receivinghealingpromise But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. Fareed Zakaria lifetwopromise She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him. F. Scott Fitzgerald littlesprofoundpromise Before my mother died, she made me promise to do everything that could be done to make sure my father was not left alone after she was gone. Farrah Fawcett motherfatherpromise I promise you that, with increased attendance in the temples of our God, you shall receive increased personal revelation to bless your life as you bless those who have died Ezra Taft Benson attendancetemplespromise A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it. Fausto Cercignani remainssecretpromise There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed. Ezra Pound mendeathpromise I promise you, I will never enter a bicycle race. Donald Trump bicyclei-promisepromise Of one thing the executive may be sure: that the majority want more of the good things of life, and if they can get them without undue personal effort, so much the better. So the executive naturally tends to promise material gain, contingent of course on his remaining in power. The impetus to personal rule is obvious. Felix Morley majorityeffortpromise«1920212223242526272829»
