- 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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- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Narendra Modiji has proved his skills and delivered on his promises in Gujarat and he has some very good plans for the nation.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
No cabinet official has delivered on Donald Trump's key campaign promises more resoundingly than Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm committed to fulfilling my promises to my people, including my pledge to engage in constructive interaction with the world.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.
- Food Supply
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmfree production promises a far more stable and reliable food supply that can be grown anywhere, even in countries without farmland. It could be crucial to ending world hunger.
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Chief Whip's job is trying to make sure that the Government - and MPs elected as part of the governing party - deliver the promises that they were elected on. That's a healthy part of the democratic process.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.
- Stand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.
- Example
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- Nov 07, 2020