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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Extermination
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- Nov 07, 2020
How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as guaranteed high investment returns. Be wary of anyone who promises that you will receive a high rate of return on your investment with little or no risk.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get Xi Jinping to help with our Pyongyang problem, Trump has dropped all talk of befriending Taiwan, backed off Tillerson's warning to Beijing to vacate its fortified reefs in the South China Sea, and held out promises of major concessions to Beijing in future trade deals.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits, who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people of Odisha know who fulfils promises and who does not. We believe in works and not in words.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no safety in anything, but in the arts, there is really this idea of no promises. I didn't follow the writing dream for safety.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020