For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise.
No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.
Donald Trump had probably the biggest mandate to do things of any recent president because of the specifics of his agenda and his campaign. So many times a day he announced what he was gonna do. So he was elected, he won; therefore, he's got a mandate. And his party is not assisting and not helping, and they're even violating promises they made for seven years on the repeal and replace Obamacare.
At least I died trying. And I won. I never gave them away. I never hurt them. I did my best to find them. I tried to keep my promise. . . I die for them.
In each of [my] actions, I'm keeping my promises to the American people. These are campaign promises.
When I was in Vietnam I learned a lot about the promises that soldiers make to each other. The Marines have a promise to never leave behind their dead. In this country, as citizen soldiers, we need to make the commitment to each other that we will never leave our veterans behind.
The only thing I can promise is my best and when I bring my best, you're going to have to bring six people to beat me.
My imperfections will never override God’s promises. God’s promises are not dependent on my ability to always choose well, but rather on His ability to use well.
There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.
If you keep circling the promise, God will ultimately deliver on it.
You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know. " "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want. " "Anything?" "Anything that doesn't require doing anything. " "That's nothing, then. " "Is it?" "Yes. " "Well, that's something.
All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management.
Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.
The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?
A blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time, Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light, And it looks flourishing--a little while-- 'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone.
It is that perfection of God by which he is devoid of all change, not only in His Being, but also in His perfections, and in His purposes and promises.
Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins. " I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.
Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might suppose that the possession of such a magnificent formula, combined with the tremendous assurance of a benevolent God, would make a person happy. But such appears not to be the case. : unease and insecurity and rage seem to keep up with blissful certainty, and even to outpace it.
The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.
May today be a happy memory, tomorrow a bright new promise. Happy Birthday