Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans.
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.
If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?
We have to be a democracy and demand certain things even after that individual gets in the White House. All those promises those dudes and women are making on the campaign trail, we gotta make sure those promises come to fruition and that doesn't happen by just voting and letting them get in and then falling back. Nah, you gotta be active. You gotta make your voice heard and be constantly involved in what's going on.
Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.
Some promises are lies we never meant to tell.
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a 'Matrix' of you, so you're communicating with people all the time using Scientology.
All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.
It's scary how easy promises were broken.
I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.
Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than "I'll never leave you.
God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.
When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.
Somewhere in between all the mind games, lies and seduction. . . I fell for you. Somewhere in between all the broken promises, manipulation and heartaches. . . I got over you. But, I guess I fibbed a few times too. Remember all those times I swore I needed you? Well consider them lies because baby, here I am without you, and I survived.
. . . 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.
Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos.
I've seen the same promises -- more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize. . . the promises are remade.
You cannot make promises because you never know what your next project will be.