Quotes on the topic: Promise


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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.


The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.


Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.


It's not the traditional promise ring. It's basically to always stay truthful. I think that's a really important part of a relationship, that you're always honest with each other.


The first sentence of a book is a promise.


If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.


What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.


The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.


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.


Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.


I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not! I can't not write; if I don't, then I get really depressed. I'll keep going, I promise!


Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.


The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.


I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.


I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.


Promise a lot and give even more.


I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.


Alas, we have not yet the power to render completely sterile or make impossible the errors and lies which will merely be America being itself rather than its unconvincing promise.


Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.


A promise must never be broken.