Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.
William Shakespeare
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke
No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again.
Bill Clinton
That was one of the selling points. No promises were made, but if I do my job behind the wheel this year, the future is bright.
David Starr Jordan
This could truly be a defining moment for his presidency or, depending on what he does, empty promises.
Karen Wayland
In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whose streets are paved with gold, and that's none of the law's business. But if he promises an annual free stay in a luxury hotel on Earth, he'd better have the rooms available.
Charlotte Observer
Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.
Tom Coburn
It's an abuse that occurs over and over again. These consultants are selling promises they can't keep to people who are desperate.
Gary Cohen
The Make Poverty History coalition came together for a special year of opportunity. The political decisions made would not have been made without their passionate commitment. If governments follow through on their promises, millions of lives that would have been lost could now be saved.
Richard Bennett
The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. A god who created man 'after his own image', and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited to him.
Johann Most
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.
Real Live Preacher
I never made such promises.
Shannon Staub
What this means is a return to sanity. There has been so much hype and so many promises made and promises broken.
David Chamberlain
I had to do it. The Greens keep their promises.
Keith Locke
Tons of people have called and said they're willing to help and will send us a check. It's all just promises so far, but God is good, and he'll feed his children, and they'll help.
Norma Mccorvey
The Corvette Z06 already is a performance legend and the fans will enjoy seeing it lead their favorite drivers around Daytona's famous tri-oval. It promises to be a great race, and kicking it off with a Corvette at the head of the pack is the best way to start.
Robin Braig
You have to follow through on promises and demonstrate good stewardship. Much of our fund raising has been (for) physical structures. We take great pains to keep them up so people who made gifts can come back and feel like the building is a credit to them and the organization.
Dennis Daugaard
It's always more difficult to take on a case in which a contract might contradict or not substantiate verbal promises. However, it's not a burden that's never been met before.
Christine Pritchard
Our biggest challenge is that Zimbabweans have never experienced any form of free and fair elections and have had 25 years of broken promises and betrayed dreams.
Paul Themba Nyathi
Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises.
John Dobbin
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.
Marion Wink
Genetic engineering has not delivered on any of its promises for human health benefits. There are a lot of failures scattered at the side of the road.
Margaret Mellon
The general rubric is breach of fiduciary duty, but I think there's been a breach of a whole variety of promises.
Roger Magnuson
Privacy and security promises must be kept. It's good business. It's the law, and we'll take action against companies that do not keep their promises.
Timothy Muris
Those empty seats -- always breaking promises.
Chris Tindal
I personally believe that when everything else is equal, a tax deduction in the hand is worth many, many promises later.
Michael Boone
Museveni has not kept his promises to West Nile. I think he has been punished.
Norbert Mao
HSDPA promises the highest average speeds to date.
Adam Zawel
This program encourages inmates to be responsible for their decisions and it promises that they will be held accountable for their actions. If they make good decisions, there are quality-of-life things available to them.
Randy Geer
But much more important, here is a man who got elected on the promise that he wouldn't need special interest money and wouldn't take it. He now says he needs it and he'll be happy to take it. How many promises does he get to break before no one believes anything he says?
Gale Kaufman
The time for grand speeches is over. We must now put our words into action. Now is the time for us to fulfil our promises.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
The promises made by the Stockholm Convention must now be realized through specific activities, policies and investments at the national and community levels.
Shafqat Kakakhel
The feeling is, we're due for a major catastrophic event to occur here. We're doing this in order to preserve the promises we made to the large majority of our customers.
Krista Conte
The budget showed that there is division [among conservatives] and it is not plain sailing for him. It is too early to judge whether he has been able to deliver on his promises or not.
Baqer Moin
While I do have an affection for Jill Kelly, I wouldn't call it an obsession. Obsession is the sort of word one immediately associates with statements like, 'Your Honor, my client promises to keep the court-ordered mandatory distance away from...'
Jill Kelly
I do not know Harriet Miers. I do know President Bush and his commitment to a federal judiciary that lives within its constitutional assignment and interprets the law and doesn't write it from the bench, ... If the president trusts Harriet Miers to fulfill his campaign promises to the American people, then I trust Harriet Miers until I am given compelling evidence to the contrary.
Richard Land
An employer must keep its promises. If you can prove that the employer promised you a 6 percent commission, with no cap, and then reneged on the promise, you have the makings of a successful lawsuit.
Richard Kass
It's such a waste. But I think the issue is more about keeping promises.
David Ware
I think what you're creating is false promises.
Nancy Bain
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
Peter F. Drucker
Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to...?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.
Morgan Freeman
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen
We can't make promises that we can give you assistance.
John Sparkman
The Liberals have dismantled health care, slaughtered tax dollars and ignored crime. They made promises they did not keep. Their time has run out. Canadians will not give them any more chances.
Michael Wilson
It has failed to deliver on its promises to maintain peace and security worldwide and to reduce poverty worldwide, ... One cannot say that the U.N. has been a blessing in Africa.
Charles Murigande
The demonstrated technology present in this test promises to push the SM- 3 into the next generation of capability. This evolutionary enhancement builds upon flight-proven design and processes.
Bart Olson
They are making promises that they may or may not be able to keep. It's unclear whether the money is going to come in.
Jesse Reynolds
A scam carried out by our state government is no less a scam. And ads from the North Carolina Lottery Commission which will no doubt entice people to fork over hard-earned cash on empty promises of instant riches would conflict with our efforts to give readers honest and accurate information.
Bart Adams
It promises to be powerful event television and we've placed it in the heart of the BBC2 schedule for three consecutive nights to create maximum impact with as wide an audience as possible.
Roly Keating
They are all going to be making the same promises: more education, better economy. But if one candidate is more marketable, or comes out with a killer line, that could mean a lot.
Oscar Aguilar
There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.
Paul Castellano
I don't think he's going to have enough of a track record of making promises and keeping them. It will be interesting for Mitt Romney to have to live with his actions. There's a track record there.
Shannon O'brien
Mr. Condit has made pledges and promises for a long time -- before the campaign and during the campaign -- that he would do anything he could to help the investigators. We just ask that he keep his word and keep his pledge that he will cooperate completely and talk to our investigators and help them find our daughter.
Robert Levy
Let God's promises shine on your problems.
Corrie Ten Boom
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.
Raoul Vaneigem
It's clear that he has set a higher standard than has been possible for him to reasonably meet. It's clear that he needs to work harder to fulfill those promises.
Kathay Feng
If they (the pledgers) all live up to their promises, we'll have more than enough money to cover the remaining bills. But the event happened in July and here it is September. This is not good.
John Kramer
They made a lot of promises that they couldn't keep.
Tim Bryant
As we have stated in several public forums recently, not only do we expect to deliver on our promises for 2001, we have a good outlook for earnings in 2002 as well.
Robert Brace
Not only do we think the state would be liable, we think it would be a horrible business practice for the state to decide they would like to go back on promises made in contracts with private individuals.
Mike Triplett
I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren.
Tom Coburn
And the promises have not been delivered.
Luis Garcia
Despite the publisher's promises that the magazine's contents would be on lifestyle, conventional issues, culture and politics, and there would be no nude pictures, we just don't believe him.
Ahmad Rofiq
Digital manufacturing promises to closely couple production design with the manufacturing process. As product mix changes, you have to make changes to your process.
Andy Chatha
This sparkling Opera Box production promises to transport everyone to the banks of the Danube.
David Lindsey
I think this resolution will make it crystal clear as to where (city council) stands, ... It's about keeping promises.
Curtis Jenkins
Mortgage brokers have been burned by lead generation companies that don't live up to their promises regarding the quality of leads delivered. Our goal in creating the Quality Assurance Program is to meet broker demand for valid names and numbers from people who have truly expressed interest in a loan product.
Clint Jones
It clearly shows that people do not have faith in the king's promises and his pledge to turn back the country to democracy.
Dhruba Adhikary
Today's vote promises to ultimately eclipse dirty and expensive fossil fuel with clean and efficient solar power.
Bernadette Del Chiaro
God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage.
Bulgarian Proverb
Again the market foolishly priced in all the upside, all the blue sky on day one ... all on the back of some promises.
Arthur Lim
We'll see how it goes, ... I've recovered okay from the Tour, we'll see how the legs are. I don't want to make any promises.
Floyd Landis
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
Peter F. Drucker
Restructuring is the first step and that's the easy part, but what they don't have yet is a viable business model. The market won't accept hollow promises.
Carlos Dimas
He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend.
George Shelley
Those of us who are not lucky enough to get the preview beta are still sitting here wondering if Lotus can deliver on all of the 5.0 promises, ... I'm looking at '99 planning, and my patience is growing thin.
Bruce Reed
Ever since the announcement was first made, and we first contacted [Dixon], she has never made any promises. She's been upfront about saying she is willing to listen, willing to consider, but she is not going to lead us on.
Mary Shapiro
Things haven't been great for me recently. I'm working hard on my game and relish the challenge that lies ahead - it promises to be an exciting tournament.
Graeme Mcdowell
This has reinforced everything we feared about North Korea's promises, but no one expected them to shove it in everyone's faces within 24 hours. It doesn't mean they're ripping up the piece of paper, they just like to keep everyone guessing.
Peter Beck
Parking also promises to be a challenge downtown and chances are you'll spend more than $5 a pop.
Maribeth Smith
We have been waiting a long time to play in France, and we're delighted to be invited to the festival. It will be a great start to what promises to be a good tour for the band.
Tommy Jackson
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
George Stephanopoulos
Along with these new programs and the law school's new ability to connect meaningfully with the faculty and resources of University Park, this investment promises an exceptionally bright and long future for The Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle.
Philip Mcconnaughay
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
Francis Marion
Both candidates have made big promises to cut taxes. But neither has said where the money is coming from or how they'll cut the debt.
James Walston
I know many minority groups in the past have had promises made and promises broken. I understand that. But we're not going to break our promise.
Glenn Poshard
Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.
Howard Dean
I can't make any promises, except I'll treat people fair. If I'm elected, I'll have to learn everything.
Casey Davis
We are all looking forward to seeing Scott again. It promises to be an emotional evening.
David Short
This is the first salvo in what promises to be a very interesting battle.
Gil Gutknecht
Many (of these) services are legitimate, ... But some have overzealous salespeople making promises that aren't realistic and some are outright scams.
Richard Flaherty
We cannot stand idly by, tied to a past that promises only further decline for construction workers.
Terence M. O'sullivan
Undelivered Promises and Betrayals of the Uruguay Round.
National Press
The government has not delivered on its corruption promises. The problem is that the example of corruption has been set by those at the top and they are protecting a system that serves them at the expense of the man on the street.
Mwalimu Mati
I've always thought that Merrill had a lot of fat to trim. This is a fulfillment of those promises they made.
Mark Constant
The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
It was spread on pieces of paper I have seen myself, ... It said I made all these promises that simply weren't true.
Supachai Panitchpakdi
John Kerry takes a backseat to no one when it comes to maintaining the strongest military on the face of the Earth and keeping our promises to America's veterans, and across this country citizens are responding to his call for change.
David Wade
Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.
Allen Boyd
Promises, promise, promises. These promises we have all heard before... Nobody pays much attention to them.
Adolf Rosenstock
Japan needs to follow through with its promises. The continued embargo costs the U.S. beef industry $100 million a month. If Japan is going to keep throwing up roadblocks, we need to take retaliatory action.
Craig Thomas
When we ran for Student Government last year, we ran on a higher education reform. This campaign is our answer to some of the promises that we made.
Tom Crawford
This promises to be one of the highlights of this year's concert series at the Commons.
David Bridson
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.
Herbert Agar
Our mission is to see if it lives up to its promises.
Harry Mcdonald
...promises to be one of the most influential books of the 21st century.
Karen Davis
He didn't make promises he couldn't keep. If he couldn't do something, he would tell you.
Bob Martin
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn Waugh
It's crazy. The sticker on your new player promises the equivalent of a high-performance car, but the fine print says you may be buying an Edsel instead.
Richard Doherty
To its credit, GM is trying to remake itself and make good on the promises it made in the past. Companies are not required to make open-ended promises into the future.
Olivia Mitchell
This is a profoundly disappointing text and a betrayal of development promises by rich countries whose interests have prevailed yet again.
Phil Bloomer
She's famous around the world, but Pamela will feel right at home in Halifax. She can expect a hearty east coast welcome for what promises to be a spectacular awards broadcast.
Susanne Boyce
The discovery of Site Q promises the recovery of a record of one of the greatest producers of classic Maya civilization.
Marcello Canuto
The prosecutor expects that Serbia will live up to its promises given to her during her last visit in Belgrade and deliver Mladic before that date.
Carla Del Ponte
Bond professionals will know that DRPA politicians are willing to use the power of their office over finances to advance their political agendas at the expense of keeping their promises to their lenders. This was a sad day.
David Kotok
This program promises to make solar affordable for all of us, instead of being this niche technology.
Bernadette Del Chiaro
America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.
Charlotte Bunch
There are still pockets of areas that are still having problems getting vaccine. The (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) promises it's on the way, so by the end of this month and December people should still be able to get their shots.
Brian Quinn
He that promises most will perform least.
Gaelic Proverb
These situations demand immediate action. Customers can't wait and accept promises that things will be sorted out in days or weeks or months.
Richard Breeden
Basically to make it fair and across the board. We don't anticipate any large residential development. We anticipate some large commercial changes in Deer Harbor. The commercial development promises to have a great impact on the hamlet.
Terry Neal
It will come down to a choice of new leadership versus old leadership, old ideas and broken promises in the areas of property taxes and education.
David Mcintosh
That the promises that were made on my end are carried out to the best of my ability.
Andrew Carter
Leaders have dashed hopes and squandered opportunities, and empty promises cost lives.
Kumi Naidoo
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
Quentin Crisp
I think it is important to note that P.P.C.O.M. has essentially broken its promises here.
Michelle Firmbach
Allow (stress) to dominate your life and you get chaos. Put God first and somehow everything falls into place. Scripture promises it.
Mariette Ulrich
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
Robert H. Bork
Every person and company, including every employer and employee, is required by law to fulfill promises that it makes to another person, so long as that other recipient of the promise has reasonably relied on that promise.
Alan Sklover
How does it make sense to say that you're protecting capital of $10,000 by giving $500 to a salesman who in five years promises you $9,500? You don't get your money back; you get what is invested back.
Brian Portnoy
Vote for capable people who will lead this country and not take us into wars. Don't vote for presidential and parliamentary candidates who give empty promises that they can't fulfill. We need leaders who will deliver.
Henry Luke Orombi
Philip Morris promises some strong growth as you look over the next six, 12 and 24 months.,
Marc Cohen
We have made promises before but we failed to execute them. We must fight like the Sony warriors that we are.
Howard Stringer
At least 10,000 people have lost their lives in violence in the last five years, poll promises of Congress were not fulfilled, there is total breakdown of law and order and corruption is everywhere.
Brindaban Goswami
It promises to be a very busy test.
Christian Silk
Downtown is a great place to come for live music, and this season promises to generate even more enthusiasm within the community.
Ashley Capps
By any measure, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a failed governor, a photo-op politician who has left a long trail of shattered promises and missed opportunities.
Phil Angelides
Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
This is something I had as a campaign issue when I was running for office. You make a lot of promises when you?re running for office and I?m trying to make good on that promise by forming this committee.
Mayor David Iwuc
Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
Theodore Parker
I saw him on television. I didn't vote for his promises. I just looked at him and saw he was just like us. So I told everybody I knew -- for example, my kids -- I told them to vote for him.
Jafar Shalde
Our customers count on us to keep the lights on and the natural gas flowing, no matter if it's 90 degrees or 9 degrees outside. That is a responsibility that we take very seriously. These investments enable us to keep those promises and deliver quality service to our customers.
Denis O'brien
The President's address was lifeless, dull and directionless. It contained only hollow promises, contrary to facts.
Vk Malhotra
It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn Waugh
As huge energy bills hit California mailboxes this month, there is no better time to jumpstart a mainstream solar power market. Today's vote promises to eclipse expensive and imported fossil fuels with clean and homegrown solar power.
Bernadette Del Chiaro
To win public support and government funding, advocates for human cloning and ESC (embryonic stem cell) research have long made hyped claims and exaggerated promises to legislators and the public.
Richard Doerflinger
The reduced support for the government is surely a warning that the government must heed. And the warning is that you cannot break your promises.
Preston Manning
[It] promises to infuse the celebration with renewed coast-to-coast enthusiasm and heightened profile for Canada's talented television industry.
Paul Gratton
Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.
W. R. Inge
No other policy sells patients health care coverage that promises so much yet delivers so little.
Carmen Balber
We also had to look at the law and facts and given that in Maryland, seeking of the death penalty almost always sets up a system of false promises to victims' families.
Douglas Gansler
The concert promises to be exceptional this year - there will be a wonderful mixture of old and new solos and arrangements involving everyone.
Stephen Oliver
A number of commentators have expressed the view that the Indian government needs to deliver on the promises it is making on easing foreign investment.
Philip Scott
Every dollar spent on these campaign promises, on these two ballot measures, is another dollar that could be spent on a true solution to some of the city's real problems, to the deficit, to the potholes, to park maintenance.
Joan Raymond
We've watched our growth closely. I think we could have grown a lot quicker but our concern is always quality and delivering on our promises.
Paul Rondeau
A cruel hoax because none of this money is being made available now. ... Faced with this most deadly global threat, Bush continues to stall and its empty promises are costing thousands of African lives every day.
Salih Booker
Once and for all, we will be able to see if he can make a tough choice and live up to his own promises.
Bill Magavern
Certainly they will use it to show that promises made will be fulfilled. But in this country there's cynicism about promises made being kept.
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
For far too many years, too many politicians have pledged to create jobs to keep young people in Wyoming. They have failed to keep those promises.
Ray Hunkins
From the promises of the local and international politicians ... we don't believe the status of Kosovo will match what the people fought for.
Sherif Krasniqi
We wish all the best for the new PLC, and I hope that its members would fulfill their promises they presented to the Palestinian people during the election campaign.
Rawhi Fattouh
The U.S. only gives empty promises to Indonesia. They promised to supply military spare parts and equipment (to Indonesia) last year, but to date this has not materialized.
Djoko Susilo
Change is good and for John Abraham moving forward, change would be good for him. You get to a point in your career as a player when there's been some unfulfilled promises ... you have to move through that because it's a business. That's what we've been able to do with John, have his sights set on a brighter future.
Rich Rosa
Some people have said I would raise 500, but I told them I wouldn't go that far. But I do have a lot of promises and it is only March. One lady said she will check the flea markets over the summer and others are going to bring in whatever their kids don't play with anymore, so I have that to look forward to.
Maybelle Graves
You know love is everything you say;a whisper, a word, promises you give.You feel it in the heartbeat of the day.You know this is the way love is.
Alex Langwenya
He promises to do as much damage and harm to Israel as he can, ... He in this sense is a very, very unusual case where somebody spied on his country and betrayed his country and continues to do so and promises to do every harm that he can do to his country.
Joseph Lapid
As caregivers, we recognize that prescription drugs are an important part of treating illness and enhancing wellness. But before we expand benefits -- and make new promises -- to Medicare beneficiaries, it is essential that we keep our current promises.
Dick Davidson
I think there is going to be a certain amount of second-guessing when the actual price tag of these various promises come in.
Rob Huebert
It's hard to rely on promises when it comes to wage increase because we don't know what would happen to [the proposal] at the Senate.
Ernesto Herrera
He can't mention ethics because he has failed to keep his promises.
Edwin Eisendrath
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