Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.
Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!
God has promised to help us, and God always keeps His promises.
God only promises to bless the nation that recognizes His authority.
He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.
The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.
If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?
Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.
Lightly given promises must meet with little trust.
Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success.
. . . we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself. . . There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak.
Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.
Con artists are using Obamacare confusion to sign people up for fake health insurance. The scammers lure victims with false promises like, 'If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan. ' The scammers will tell you that, so you have to be careful.
Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.
Why is it that we believe God's promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment?
You can trust me to keep my word. I always keep my word, promises or threats.
The promises of God are His guarantees amid life's uncertainties. They're the basis of all our life of faith.
By freely choosing to believe God's promises, a person's faith may be more strongly embraced and, therefore, less likely to falter in times of struggle, sadness, or other such difficulties.
All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?