#promises

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#made #promises

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#aid #broken #bush #campaign #college

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made. ↗

— Amy Vanderbilt

#compromises #discarded #etiquette #field #find

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. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#any #consideration #ever #found #hack

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. ↗

— Mackenzie King

#promises #taxes #today #yesterday

Resolutions are most often empty promises for those who have an abundance of dreams, but refuse to wake up and live them. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#goals #promises #resolutions #success #dreams

They’re promise rings,” he whispered. Picking up the woman’s, he lifted my right hand. Sliding it on my finger, he softly said, “You wear one,” he slipped the man’s on the ring finger of his right hand, “and I wear one. ↗

— S.C. Stephens

#promises #rings #love

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. ↗

— John Green

#promises #love

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love? ↗

— John Green

#love #promises #the-fault-in-our-stars #young-adult #love

Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try. ↗

— J.M. Darhower

#life #promises #risks #sempre #change