Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. — Dick Gregory
Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope. — Marilyn Monroe
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. — Eliel Saarinen
Poor leaders motivate those following them with false promises of promotions, success, and a great tomorrow but rarely deliver on those promises. — Lewis Howes
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. — Francis Marion
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. — Samuel Johnson
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. — Edmund Burke
A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues. — Otis Rush
For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise. — Harry Browne
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away. — Winston Churchill
False Promises Quotes
When it comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion. — George Carlin
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky. — George Carlin
Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep. — Edna Ferber
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
I promise that this will be the last time you’ll see me. I won’t come back. I won’t put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I’d never existed. — Stephenie Meyer
False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them. — Thomas Otway
it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises. — Frances Wright
"Someday" is a disease that will take dreams to the grave with you.
The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls. — Wayne LaPierre
The Senate voted 97-0 for an anti-spam bill to stop those annoying things you get on your computer. The senators made it very clear that when you start misleading the American people and start taking their money over false promises, that's our turf, buddy! — Jay Leno
When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. — Euripides
The reason we avoid the word 'synergy' is because people generally claim more synergistic benefits than will come. Yes, it exists, but there are so many false promises.Berkshire is full of synergies - we don't avoid synergies, just claims of synergies. — Charlie Munger
Broken Promises Quotes
Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives. — Henri Nouwen
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth. — Chief Joseph
Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind. — Douglas MacArthur
I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. — John F. Kennedy
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven. — Charles Williams
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
Take a deep breath and take this to heart; God has nothing to do with broken promises. When He says, I promise, mark it down it's going to happen. — James MacDonald
People with good intentions make promises, but people with good character keep them.
If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. — Barack Obama
Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. — Barack Obama
Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth. — Mahatma Gandhi
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. — Mark Twain
Breaking Promises Quotes
There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust. — Elijah Muhammad
Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you. — Constantin Stanislavski
"Love me or hate me, I promise it won't make or break me." — Lil Wayne
If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something. — Barney Ross
I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you. — Jennifer Donnelly
It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be grateful that you have a glass, and there is something in it.
I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. — Theodore Isaac Rubin
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. — James Madison
He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other. — Tommy Douglas
There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters — Daniel Webster
Europe were promised LNG by the US after cutting Russian buying. They were lied to. Electoral politics more important than a core ally. Biden pulls the LNG terminals even though Qatari LNG has to take the long route due to Red Sea attacks. Europe look like complete clowns. — Philip Pilkington
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, than, is an empty desk a sign?
If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves — Thomas Sowell
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? — Gilbert Highet
I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whatsoever, I think there's one of two things there: There's money or the promise of money. — Allan Boesak
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic. — Pope Benedict XVI
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has already gained bears the promise of the rising of the full-orbed sun of emancipation. The result will be not to make home less happy, but society more holy. — Frances Harper
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. — Vladimir Lenin
Empty Words Quotes
A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude and behaviour which dictates the need for expression. — Peter Brook
Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here. — Karl Rahner
When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit. — Hildegard of Bingen
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. — George Sand
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. — Helen Keller
When Progressives realized there was no support for Defunding the Police, they came up with another approach: they emptied jails, set zero bail, stopped prosecuting many crimes, and dropped sentencing enhancements. In other words, they defunded the entire system. — David O. Sacks
We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words. — Chiang Kai-shek
Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation. — John Wayne
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. — H. L. Mencken
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. — Ray Davies
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. — A. N. Wilson
Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after — Emma Goldman
The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. — Mackenzie King
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible? — Barry Goldwater
Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing. — Margaret Thatcher
Kept Promises Quotes
So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It allowed hostile air to wipe out the approaching invasion force. — E. Howard Hunt
We are seeing with great grief that America remains quiet as Turkey struggles against terrorism. Because there were promises given to us, and they need to be kept. If not, we can take care of our own business. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. — Robert Bolt
Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office. — Shirley Maclaine
Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people. — Ban Ki-moon
A promise made should be a promise kept. — Steve Forbes
Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say! — Mary Douglas
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed. — Charlotte Bronte
Next time!' In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come? — Helen Hunt Jackson
Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes. — Peter The Great
This fetishization of wanting more, are empty promises of happiness and fulfillment that never seem to come to fruition. — Paul Jarvis
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom. — Vladimir Lenin
If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise. — Charles Handy
There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup. — Ted Kooser
Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master. — Miguel de Cervantes
The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty. — Ashraf Ghani
Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises. — Teresa Heinz
During my election campaign I was not giving out empty promises, but invited every member of society to join the efforts to work for a better life in Lithuania. — Dalia Grybauskaite
Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action. — Annie Lobert
Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart. — Scott Westerfeld
The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center. — Norman Mailer
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs. — Michael Josephson
The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with fear, if all we have is what lies here, this lonely world, this troubled place, then cold dead stars and empty space...Well, I see no reason to persevere, no reason to laugh or shed a tear, no reason to sleep and none to wake/ No promises to keep and none to make. And so at night I still raise my eyes tos tudy the clear but mysterious skies that arch avove us, cold as stone. Are you there God? Are we alone? — Dean Koontz
Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never! — Cornelia Funke
Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming. — Charles Foster Johnson
There's a vacancy, won't you come to me And fill my empty spaces I'm a motel man in a promised land That's filled with empty faces So won't you bring your sorrows bring your dreams, It's a place for you to be There's no more tomorrow or that's how it seems Won't you come to me? I've got a vacancy — Harry Chapin
All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled. — Amy Dickinson
It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin; he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are empty and vain. How shall he, then, mortify sin that has not the Spirit? A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit. — John Owen
Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them. — Mike Ditka
If you ask people to do things and they usually don't get around to them, stop asking yourself, "What's the matter with people these days?" Instead, ask yourself, "What's the matter with me? What am I doing or failing to do that causes people to give me empty promises?" — Ed Bliss
Look...it's empty...as empty as a politician's promise! — Harry Blackstone, Jr.
In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it. — Charles Dickens
When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital punishment would be administered with fairness and justice. Instead, the promise has become a cruel and empty mockery. If not remedied, the scandalous state of our present system of capital punishment will cast a pall of shame over our society for years to come. We cannot let it continue. — Thurgood Marshall
Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism. — Margaret Atwood
Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There must be some reason why it is mainly liberals who tend to say this, but the chief thing to note about the promise is that it is usually an empty one. — Christopher Hitchens
And then I wonder, does my brother think of me this way? We entered this world together, one after the other, beats in a pulse. But I will be first to leave it. That's what I've been promised. When we were children, did he dare to imagine an empty space beside him where I then stood giggling, blowing soap bubbles through my fingers? When I die, will he be sorry that he loved me? Sorry that we were twins? Maybe he already is. — Lauren DeStefano
Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever, flatter with vows of only me. But are they empty promises? I stare into his eyes, as into a crystal ball, but I cannot find forever, only movies of yesterday, a sketchbook of today, dreams of a shared tomorrow. His eyes whisper secrets. But are they truths or fairy tales? I wonder if even he knows. — Ellen Hopkins
But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards. — Sherman Alexie
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place reclaimed by the weather where a woman plays an organ to stop the wind's whining and an old man plays ball with a dog named Duke. I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody asked me to stay. — Joan Didion
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