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Promises Quotes
On the distance between a promise and its keeping.
A promise made and a promise kept aren't always the same thing, and these quotes sit with that gap, from personal vows between spouses to the pledges candidates make while campaigning. A few treat promise-keeping as a simple matter of character. Related: Make quotes.
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I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
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Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.
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In campaigns, promises are usually treated skeptically. Past positions are viewed as the one reliable way to gauge a candidate's instincts.
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Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.
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Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail. But it's been really hard to follow through on that second promise because of atmospheric distortion.
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You've got to look at the promises I kept. It's not just talking about doing things: it's doing them.
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There's something in the Latino community called 'la promesa de Obama' - Obama's promise. He made very specific promises to the Latino community. He committed to enacting comprehensive immigration reform within his first year.
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Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.
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I have never moved away from my promises to people.
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