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The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.
Author:
Charles Williams
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We'll be back. I promise you that.
Author:
Samuel West
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Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
Author:
Charles Wesley
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Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.
Author:
William Weld
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The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
Author:
Bernard Voto
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That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.
Author:
Alan Vega
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Better a broken promise than none at all.
Author:
Mark Twain
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It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.
Author:
Paul Tsongas
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You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.
Author:
Fred Thompson
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As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.
Author:
Marlo Thomas
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Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.
Author:
Helen Thomas
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The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.
Author:
Nguyen Thieu
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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
Author:
William Thackeray
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I also believe our country made a promise to veterans and their families. Veterans have kept their end of the bargain, and now, the VA is looking to pull out the rug.
Author:
Ellen Tauscher
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Never promise more than you can perform.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.
Author:
Picabo Street
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Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!
Author:
Robert Stack
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2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
Author:
Baldwin Spencer
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Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
Author:
Thomas Sowell
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The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.
Author:
Gordon Smith
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Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.
Author:
Delia Smith
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These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.
Author:
Douglas Sirk
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I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.
Author:
Gene Simmons
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I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.
Author:
Clare Short
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The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.
Author:
Cindy Sherman
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Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.
Author:
Martin Sheen
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
Author:
Al Sharpton
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I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.
Author:
Peter Shaffer
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A promise made is a debt unpaid.
Author:
Robert Service
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We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.
Author:
Bobby Scott
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The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.
Author:
Bobby Scott
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I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
Author:
Jan Schakowsky
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Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.
Author:
Marilyn Savant
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Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.
Author:
John Saul
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In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.
Author:
Mark Sanford
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I promise not to become a source of shame for you.
Author:
Mikhail Saakashvili
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We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.
Author:
Paul Ryan
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
Author:
Babe Ruth
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A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
Author:
Otis Rush
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He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.
Author:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Author:
Jean Rousseau
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The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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We promised new benefits to seniors like preventive screening and diabetes testing. We kept that promise.
Author:
Mike Rogers
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We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.
Author:
James Rogers
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America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.
Author:
Nelson Rockefeller
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.
Author:
Bill Richardson
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The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.
Author:
Theodor Reik
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
Author:
Karl Rahner
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
Author:
Quintilian
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
Author:
Anthony Powell
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Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
Author:
Anthony Powell
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Author:
Karl Popper
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Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
Author:
William Penn
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When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
Author:
Chuck Palahniuk
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Author:
Ovid
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To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.
Author:
Solomon Ortiz
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After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
Author:
Barack Obama
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I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Author:
Barack Obama
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People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening.
Author:
Charlie Norwood
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My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
Author:
Ralph Nader
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You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.
Author:
Joe Moore
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God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
Author:
Dwight Moody
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If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.
Author:
Alan Mollohan
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Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
Author:
Ruth Minner
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So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.
Author:
Ruth Minner
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Author:
A. Milne
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Author:
Edna Millay
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Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.
Author:
Giacomo Meyerbeer
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.
Author:
David McNally
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Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.
Author:
Mary Matalin
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Love is a promise delivered already broken.
Author:
Steve Martin
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye, I will never forget - not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you, smile at me and make it true.
Author:
Diana Lynn
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I will love you with all my heart, To have forever - never to part. This is a promise engrained in me, Take my hand and let it be.
Author:
Diana Lynn
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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Author:
Martin Luther
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There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
Author:
Titus Livius
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On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.
Author:
Dan Lipinski
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Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
Author:
Dan Lipinski
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The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.
Author:
Joe Lieberman
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The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.
Author:
Henry Lawson
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We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.
Author:
James Laughlin
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
Author:
Walter Lang
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One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.
Author:
Hedy Lamarr
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As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.
Author:
Sanjay Kumar
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I'll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.
Author:
Akshay Kumar
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We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.
Author:
Herb Kohl
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Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.
Author:
Craig Kilborn
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
Author:
Nikita Khrushchev
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The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.
Author:
Francis Key
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Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.
Author:
Sue Kelly
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But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations.
Author:
Sue Kelly
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While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans.
Author:
Sue Kelly
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Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
Author:
Leon Kass
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Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.
Author:
Neil Jordan
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If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
Author:
Barbara Jordan
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What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
Author:
Barbara Jordan
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
Author:
Barbara Jordan
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
Author:
Barbara Jordan
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
Author:
Gertrude Jekyll
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We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
Author:
Valerie Jarrett
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God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
Author:
Bill Hybels
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Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It allowed hostile air to wipe out the approaching invasion force.
Author:
E. Hunt
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I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.
Author:
Lena Horne
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Author:
Oliver Holmes
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The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid.
Author:
Paul Hoffman
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.
Author:
Charles Hodge
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Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.
Author:
Anthony Hitt
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The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value.
Author:
Morris Hite
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Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.
Author:
Ruben Hinojosa
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Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
Author:
Ken Hill
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What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
Author:
Gilbert Highet
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What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.
Author:
Brad Henry
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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.
Author:
Dennis Hastert
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
Author:
Sydney Harris
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Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.
Author:
Tom Harkin
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A promise must never be broken.
Author:
Alexander Hamilton
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I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.
Author:
David Guterson
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More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam.
Author:
Raul Grijalva
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If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it.
Author:
Merv Griffin
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With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.
Author:
Bruce Greenwood
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If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.
Author:
Bob Greene
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We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.
Author:
Thomas Goodwin
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And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.
Author:
Thomas Goodwin
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It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.
Author:
Thomas Goodwin
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We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.
Author:
Thomas Goodwin
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I've had my ring since I was 12 years old. But for me it's not something I want to go around saying, 'Hey, look what I have', It's a promise I made to myself and God. I think some people misinterpret that as a trend and think everyone's getting one.
Author:
Selena Gomez
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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.
Author:
Michael Gambon
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Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.
Author:
Richard Gallienne
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He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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A promise made should be a promise kept.
Author:
Steve Forbes
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
Author:
Zelda Fitzgerald
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Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.
Author:
Tina Fey
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If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.
Author:
Brett Favre
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I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.
Author:
Chaka Fattah
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Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
Author:
Paul Farmer
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A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true.
Author:
Ray Evans
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I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.
Author:
Cameron Diaz
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I also want to draw attention to the responsibilities that people have to live up to their election promises and to live up to the votes that were cast by the people of Wales, in the General Election, in the expectation that we would deliver this promise.
Author:
Ron Davies
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Promise a lot and give even more.
Author:
Anthony D'Angelo
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The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Author:
John Crosby
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Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
Author:
Herbert Croly
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The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
Author:
Herbert Croly
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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
Author:
Joseph Conrad
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
Author:
Camille Claudel
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I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.
Author:
Jim Clark
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I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.
Author:
Warren Christopher
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You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.
Author:
Cher
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I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
Author:
Anton Chekhov
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The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Author:
Stuart Chase
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Promise is most given when the least is said.
Author:
George Chapman
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.
Author:
Maria Cantwell
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I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.
Author:
Eric Cantor
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You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.
Author:
Mark Caine
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The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.
Author:
Jane Byrne
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Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
Author:
George Bush
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Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Author:
Leo Buscaglia
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.
Author:
Gordon Brown
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This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
Author:
David Brinkley
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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.
Author:
Wernher Braun
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In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Author:
Louis Brandeis
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I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
Author:
David Bowie
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April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
Author:
Hal Borland
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Author:
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.
Author:
Marion Berry
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It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
Author:
William Bennett
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The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.
Author:
Robert Bennett
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
Author:
Karl Barth
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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Author:
Honore Balzac
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I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
Author:
Arthur Balfour
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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
Author:
Red Auerbach
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Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!
Author:
Charles Atlas
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The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march.
Author:
William Ashley
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The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.
Author:
Rudolf Arnheim
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Author:
Isabel Allende
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Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.
Author:
Tom Allen
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
Author:
James Allen
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I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
Author:
Spiro Agnew
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Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
Author:
Abdallah Abdallah II
