In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them.
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My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.
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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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Well I've been bound and gagged and I've been terrorized And I've been castrated and I've been lobotomized But never has my tormenter come in such a cunning disguise
I let love in I let love in [...]
So if you're sitting all alone and hear a-knocking at you door and the air is full of promises, well buddy, you've been warned Far worse to be Love's lover than the lover that Love has scorned
I let love in I let love in
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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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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
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Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely in nature, but in man.
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A winner makes commitment. A loser makes promises.
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America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.
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Check out the Declaration of Independence You think it promises happiness No no no, it talks about the pursuit of happiness. The PURSUIT We've become a nation of wimps We think we're entitled to everything, we want to legislate ourselves into some cozy little cocoon. Well, forget it, Nature Boy. There are no guarantees. Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
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I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. Speaking Of Winston Churchill
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Acts 20:32:
'Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.'
(NIV)
And now [brethren], I commit you to God [I deposit you in His charge, entrusting you to His protection and care]. And I commend you to the Word of His grace [to the commands and counsels and promises of His unmerited favor]. It is able to build you up and to give you [your rightful] inheritance among all God's set-apart ones (those consecrated, purified, and transformed of soul).
(AMP)
And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
(KJV)
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2 Peter 1:5:
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge
(NIV)
For this very reason, adding your diligence [to the divine promises], employ every effort in exercising your faith to develop virtue (excellence, resolution, Christian energy), and in [exercising] virtue [develop] knowledge (intelligence)
(AMP)
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
(KJV)
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Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
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It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.
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