Promises That Are Broken Quotes

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

I don’t want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America.

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn’t be any inducement to go to heaven.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Now he found out a new thing–namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.