Top 1200 Promises That Are Broken Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.

Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.

There's no safety in anything, but in the arts, there is really this idea of no promises. I didn't follow the writing dream for safety.

I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You'd had one serious love relationship in your life and it had ended in tragedy, and the tragedy had broken something inside you. But instead of trying to repair the broken place, or at least really stop and look at it, you skated and joked. You had friends, you were a decent citizen. You hurt no one. And your life was somehow just about half of what it could be.

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.

The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?

The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.

I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity.

If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?

Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.

To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

You've got to look at the promises I kept. It's not just talking about doing things: it's doing them.

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.

We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.

When you don't know what to do, go back to the places, the people and the promises where you know you last heard God.

There were promises made to me as far as if I became a professional wrestler, that I was going to be given every opportunity to be a headliner... and that's the only reason why I accepted.

I'm fighting for people who cannot wait for changes, and I'm not making promises that I cannot keep.

God has promised to help us, and God always keeps His promises.

A brand should live up to the expectations of people; it should deliver what it promises.

Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise. He can lift earth's saddest failure up to heaven's glory.

God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises.

Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.

But druggies don't keep their looks any longer than they keep their promises.

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.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

We believe only in deeds and acts and not in declarations. We are fed up with all those declarations, promises.

If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?

Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. My dear, you are in my heart. Predestined separation promises a future meeting.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes.

The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship.

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world.

God promises to meet our needs, not our greeds.

It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.

See that you promise: what harm is there in promise? In promises anyone can be rich.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.

Faith is not only commitment to the promises of Christ; it is also commitment to his demands.

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

The promises of God are His guarantees amid life's uncertainties. They're the basis of all our life of faith.

The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty.

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.

Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.

It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.

For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.

Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi)

The promises of God become the power of God when they are believed and acted upon.

The left promises abortion rights and cradle to the grave protection, so the trick is to make it to the cradle.

Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.