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Broken Promises Quotes By John Connolly

This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people, — John Connolly

Broken Promises Quotes By Debolina

When we have no reason to be happy we often think to end ourselves, We often think we have no one in this world, it happens when our loved ones leave us and make us alone in this vast universe. — Debolina

Broken Promises Quotes By Greg Mortenson

Education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless of how long it may take, how many obstacles must be surmounted, or how much money it will cost. It is by such promises that the balance sheet of one's life is measured. — Greg Mortenson

Broken Promises Quotes By Rick Detorie

Before she closed the door, she hit me with this one: "I feel like it's November first," she said, "and I'm that discarded jack-o'-lantern whose heart and guts are splattered all over the boulevard of broken promises."
"And a good night to you, too," I said. — Rick Detorie

Broken Promises Quotes By Herbert Hoover

The wreckage of representative government is strewn with broken promises. — Herbert Hoover

Broken Promises Quotes By Khadija Rupa

What about those Promises of yours to never leave me? she asked, stammering too much this time. His cruel smirk was as gut-wrenching as his words - Promises are meant to be broken, sweetheart. — Khadija Rupa

Broken Promises Quotes By Alastair Reynolds

Some promises are best broken. Trust me on this: I'm a politician. — Alastair Reynolds

Broken Promises Quotes By Robert M. Drake

Maybe all the broken dreams and empty promises the world offered are just reflections of what is within us. Maybe one day we will learn to accept ourselves for all the faults sleeping beneath the footprints we leave behind. — Robert M. Drake

Broken Promises Quotes By Sarah Gavron

The suffragettes endured 50 years of broken government promises and not being heard. The press never reported on their activities. — Sarah Gavron

Broken Promises Quotes By Kat T. Masen

Promises are just promises, made to be broken if they are built on lies. Not — Kat T. Masen

Broken Promises Quotes By Hannah Arendt

Strengthened by the experiences of almost two decades in the various capitals, the Nazis were confident that their best "propaganda" would be their racial policy itself, from which, despite many other compromises and broken promises, they had never swerved for expediency's sake. — Hannah Arendt

Broken Promises Quotes By Buffalo Bill

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. — Buffalo Bill

Broken Promises Quotes By Sanhita Baruah

One can simply never take back the words he spoke.
And when you know you unintentionally did hurt someone, instead of letting it go or keeping a distance from that person, you can actually do something to mend the broken. That's the least we can do, when circumstances never are on our side; we can stick to our words and promises even if people change and fate ruins.. — Sanhita Baruah

Broken Promises Quotes By Rene Cassin

How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal? — Rene Cassin

Broken Promises Quotes By Sherrod Brown

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

Broken Promises Quotes By Haruki Murakami

He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken. — Haruki Murakami

Broken Promises Quotes By Kenneth Grahame

Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to. — Kenneth Grahame

Broken Promises Quotes By Anais Nin

The magic beauty of simultaneity, to see the loved one rushing toward you at the same moment you are rushing toward him, the magic power of meeting, exactly at midnight to achieve union, the illusion of one common rhythm achieved by overcoming obstacles, deserting friends, breaking other bonds - all this was soon dissolved by his laziness, by his habit of missing every moment, of never keeping his word, of living perversely in a state of chaos, of swimming more naturally in a sea of failed intentions, broken promises, and aborted wishes — Anais Nin

Broken Promises Quotes By Chuck Palahniuk

In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power. — Chuck Palahniuk

Broken Promises Quotes By Anthony Liccione

Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise. — Anthony Liccione

Broken Promises Quotes By Leon Brown

People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself. — Leon Brown

Broken Promises Quotes By John Harvey

Promises," his gran had said once, her sour commentary on the whole affair, "are like pie crusts - meant to be broken. — John Harvey

Broken Promises Quotes By Ann Marie Aguilar

Don't make any promises that you can't keep — Ann Marie Aguilar

Broken Promises Quotes By Sherman Alexie

But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards. — Sherman Alexie

Broken Promises Quotes By Craig D. Lounsbrough

Maybe I've got to be sufficiently broken by life's many broken promises to be sufficiently compelled to seek out God's unbreakable promises. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Broken Promises Quotes By Kathleen Glasgow

That's how hearts get broken, you know. When you believe in promises. — Kathleen Glasgow

Broken Promises Quotes By Ann Aguirre

I get it. You'd rather have him, broken, than me whole. If that didn't clarify my chances with you, nothing would. But you can't have what you want either, Deuce. I can't be your friend, feeling like this. Give me some time, and then ... Maybe. No promises. — Ann Aguirre

Broken Promises Quotes By Julie Johnson

We stared at one another, two strangers bound eternally by a shared past of lies and broken promises. — Julie Johnson

Broken Promises Quotes By Edna Ferber

Death-bed promises should be broken as lightly as they are seriously made.
-The Gay Old Dog — Edna Ferber

Broken Promises Quotes By Chief Joseph

Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises. — Chief Joseph

Broken Promises Quotes By Barack Obama

We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our past, we will move ahead together in writing a new, brighter chapter in our joint history. — Barack Obama

Broken Promises Quotes By Tegan Quin

All of the things that you promised me that you'd be, now your hands are tired.
And all of the things that you promised me that you'd need, now my hands are tired. — Tegan Quin

Broken Promises Quotes By Atul Purohit

After a while you learn the difference between holding a hand and falling in love.. You begin to learn that kisses don't always mean something, Promises can be broken just as quickly as they are made, and goodbyes sometime really are forever! — Atul Purohit

Broken Promises Quotes By Chief Joseph

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises. — Chief Joseph

Broken Promises Quotes By Clarissa Pinkola Estes

There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision of her future life - and that is, whether to be bitter or not. Women often come to this in their late thirties or early forties. They are at the point where they are full up to their ears with everything and they've "had it" and "the last straw has broken the camel's back" and they're "pissed off and pooped out." Their dreams of their twenties may be lying in a crumple. There may be broken hearts, broken marriages, broken promises. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Broken Promises Quotes By Joann Buchanan

When everything in life is made to be broken----promises, dreams and hearts, all of them--it's the memories of perfect moments that get us through. — Joann Buchanan

Broken Promises Quotes By Charlie Higson

PROMISES means EVERYTHING but after they are broken SORRY means NOTHING — Charlie Higson

Broken Promises Quotes By John T. Pless

Broken sinners do not need instructions in ethics but a word from God that rescues them from the misery of their sin and restores them to peace with God through faith in His promises. — John T. Pless

Broken Promises Quotes By Sidney Sheldon

I'm tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept. — Sidney Sheldon

Broken Promises Quotes By Margaret Thatcher

If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid it. It will either demand that past promises are broken, or it will not work, or it will not pay taxes, or the most talented people will leave. Socialist governments which have tried to tax 'till the pips squeak' have ample experience of that. — Margaret Thatcher

Broken Promises Quotes By Michelle Sagara

Everything happens at night.
The world changes, the shadows grow, there's secrecy and privacy in dark places. First kiss at night, by the monkey bars and the old swings that the children and their parents have vacated; second, longer kiss, by the bike stands, swirl of dust around feet in the dry summer air. Awkward words, like secrets just waiting to be broken, the struggle to find the right ones, the heady fear of exposure
what if, what if
the joy when the words are returned. Love, in the parkette, while the moon waxes and the clouds pass.
Promises at night. Not first promises
those are so old they can't be remembered
but new promises, sharp and biting; they almost hurt to say, but it's a good hurt. Dreams at night, before sleep, and dreams during sleep.
Everything, always, happens at night. — Michelle Sagara

Broken Promises Quotes By Jodi Picoult

Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness? — Jodi Picoult

Broken Promises Quotes By Jenim Dibie

Promises are born broken, to fix them you keep them.. — Jenim Dibie

Broken Promises Quotes By Claire Merle

In the Community everything was black and white. Here, romantic relationships took on shades of grey; they were full of uncertainty, maybes, broken promises. — Claire Merle

Broken Promises Quotes By Sheila Walsh

We have to separate promises that may never be kept from God's promises, which will never be broken. — Sheila Walsh

Broken Promises Quotes By Charles Caleb Colton

What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession. — Charles Caleb Colton

Broken Promises Quotes By Henri J.M. Nouwen

When God makes a covenant with us, God says: 'I will love you with an everlasting love. I will be faithful to you, even when you run away from me, reject me, or betray me.' In our society we don't speak much about covenants; we speak about contracts. When we make a contract with a person, we say: 'I will fulfill my part as long as you fulfill yours. When you don't live up to your promises, I no longer have to live up to mine.' Contracts are often broken because the partners are unwilling or unable to be faithful to their terms.
But God didn't make a contract with us; God made a covenant with us, and God wants our relationships with one another to reflect that covenant. That's why marriage, friendship, life in community are all ways to give visibility to God's faithfulness in our lives together. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Broken Promises Quotes By Dave Eggers

I don't think I've ever gotten any significant thing I wanted. You have no idea how weird it is to envision things and have them come to nothing. No vision has ever come true, no promise has ever been kept. But then there was you, and you were the promise that would obliterate all the disappointments of the past. Everything about you insisted on it. Your color, your hair, the way light projects from every part of you. You were the sun that would burn away all the putrid broken promises of the world. — Dave Eggers

Broken Promises Quotes By James MacDonald

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

Broken Promises Quotes By Saru Singhal

No, I don't have a heart of gold. It's normal - the one that gets hurt by rude words and broken promises. — Saru Singhal

Broken Promises Quotes By Mason Cooley

To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks. — Mason Cooley

Broken Promises Quotes By Susan Shapiro Barash

Although previous studies had suggested that friendship
male and female
could be a powerful antidote to stress, more recent research indicates that broken promises, dashed expectations, and other side effects of friendship gone wrong can actually raise the level of stress in our lives, often to disastrous effect. — Susan Shapiro Barash

Broken Promises Quotes By Seema Gupta

If You Love me..
Your love drove me
towards the live volcano
where i will be burnt and destroyed
On your fake promises
I made castles on air
Oh! ! ! I was throwing
some pearls in desert
where oasis has value
Pearls have no value
just remember
I am an ocean
you are only a boat
for a boat to explore ocean
love need to be daring, desperate
If You love me
Plant a seed of truth
make me part of your missing
Just If you Love me ... — Seema Gupta

Broken Promises Quotes By Tad Williams

Why were men so caught up with their honor, their solemn word, their promises?
Half the time the promises were never asked of them in the first place.
And yet the wars that were fought over such things, the hearts broken and the lands ruined..! — Tad Williams

Broken Promises Quotes By Jacqueline Novogratz

So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Broken Promises Quotes By Stefan Ahnhem

now and it mustn't be broken under any circumstance. There was so much yet to be said, but it would all come in good time. So many meaningless apologies. So many strained explanations. Promises — Stefan Ahnhem

Broken Promises Quotes By Jane Austen

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors. — Jane Austen

Broken Promises Quotes By Barack Obama

If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. — Barack Obama

Broken Promises Quotes By Jennie Allen

We love because he first loved us (1 John 4:19). When we don't love or feel joy or peace or passion, it's because we do not know his love or his joy or peace or passion. He is a person, not a magic pill you take when your life or your soul is broken. He is a person. He is a person you talk to and listen to and love and respect. He's someone you decide to spend time with and dream with, whom you follow and learn from and hurt with, and to whom you ask things - someone you choose over anybody else, over anything else. He is a person - the person who defines my life, sweeps in and changes me. When I let him in. We all want to be free, joyful, and peaceful, but we get reluctant to hand God everything. But that is part of the path to the things he promises us. — Jennie Allen

Broken Promises Quotes By Nick Jonas

people change and promises are broken — Nick Jonas

Broken Promises Quotes By Lil' Wayne

Somewhere in between all the mind games, lies and seduction ... I fell for you. Somewhere in between all the broken promises, manipulation and heartaches ... I got over you. But, I guess I fibbed a few times too. Remember all those times I swore I needed you? Well consider them lies because baby, here I am without you, and I survived. — Lil' Wayne

Broken Promises Quotes By Aleatha Romig

He spoke again as if he hadn't just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now lay in a pile of shards. — Aleatha Romig

Broken Promises Quotes By Gia Riley

There was a time I believed I was worthy of true love. But now, living in a hell littered with reminders of broken promises, I know what we have is anything but love. — Gia Riley

Broken Promises Quotes By Aesop

Enemies' promises were made to be broken. — Aesop

Broken Promises Quotes By Winston Graham

It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them... — Winston Graham

Broken Promises Quotes By Lyla Tyela Belikov

I heard you were a player , okay , lets play a game.
We'll flirt, play fights, talk 24/7, say goodmorning and goodnight every day, give each other nicknames, hang out, talk on the phone for hours, take cute pictures together, make promises to each other and hold each other.
And whoever falls in love first, loses. — Lyla Tyela Belikov

Broken Promises Quotes By Matthew B. Crawford

The appeal of magic is that it promises to render objects plastic to the will without one's getting too entangled with them. Treated from arm's length, the object can issue no challenge to the self. According to Freud, this is precisely the condition of the narcissist: he treats objects as props for his fragile ego and has an uncertain grasp of them as having a reality of their own. The clearest contrast to the narcissist that I can think of is the repairman, who must subordinate himself to the broken washing machine, listen to it with patience, notice its symptoms, and then act accordingly. He cannot treat it abstractly; the kind of agency he exhibits is not at all magical. — Matthew B. Crawford

Broken Promises Quotes By Stephen Richards

Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them ... — Stephen Richards

Broken Promises Quotes By Eman Farouk

Break a bone..and as the broken part heals it becomes the strongest part in it ... get hit by a virus, survive that and "supposedly" it can never get u again ... observe how ur skin that gets rubbed on a surface often becomes thicker and more rough with time ... remember how naive you were before and with each incident and accident with people that you've had ..it brought you to the "knowing better" person you are now ... you cant be stronger..if life doesn't try you every now and then ... and after each trial..it promises a stronger more immune version of you — Eman Farouk

Broken Promises Quotes By Matthew Kelly

Never believe a promise from a man or woman who has no discipline. They have broken a thousand promises to themselves, and they break their promise for you. — Matthew Kelly

Broken Promises Quotes By Jodi Picoult

I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken. — Jodi Picoult

Broken Promises Quotes By Ben H. Winters

Because a promise is a promise, Officer Cavatone, and civilization is just a bunch of promises, that's all it is. A mortgage, a wedding vow, a promise to obey the law, a pledge to enforce it. And now the world is falling apart, the whole rickety world, and every broken promise is a small rock tossed at the wooden side of its tumbling form. — Ben H. Winters

Broken Promises Quotes By Colleen Hoover

Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly. — Colleen Hoover

Broken Promises Quotes By 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

Broken Promises Quotes By Ezra Taft Benson

We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book, The Naked Communist: The communist 'has convinced himself that nothing is evil which answers the call of expediency.' This is a most damnable doctrine. People who truly accept such a philosophy have neither conscience nor honor. Force, trickery, lies, broken promises are wholly justified. — Ezra Taft Benson

Broken Promises Quotes By E.W. Howe

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. — E.W. Howe

Broken Promises Quotes By Jenny Han

In the pool, on that last night of the last summer, we said we'd always come back. It's scary how easy promises were broken. Just like that. — Jenny Han

Broken Promises Quotes By Anonymous

That was something else he had learned from clever Odysseus, who had tied himself to the mast of his ship so that he might hear the captivating song of the sirens without being tempted to his death. If you ever allowed your most sacred promises to be broken - if you set sail with a rope you knew was weak - then you would never be able to enjoy all the best kinds of music. — Anonymous

Broken Promises Quotes By Deyth Banger

So friendship is all about ignoring?
...

Fake smiles?
...

Lies
...

Promises which get broken?
... — Deyth Banger

Broken Promises Quotes By Tonya Hurley

There are many ways to be haunted, not all of them supernatural. From photo album to love letters, the memory of bad choices, broken promises, lost loves, and scattered dreams can often longer far longer than the glow if satisfaction from our greatest accomplishments. Indeed, the most frightening ways to be haunted may be in the many ways we haunt ourselves. — Tonya Hurley

Broken Promises Quotes By Joan D. Chittister

Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols disappoint us. — Joan D. Chittister

Broken Promises Quotes By Anne Eliot

But what if the promises means life and death? What about bliss? Saving your soul? If all that is at stake, then promises need to be broken. — Anne Eliot

Broken Promises Quotes By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leave his broken playthings on the floor. Still gazing at them through the open door, Nor wholly reassured and comforted By promises of others in their stead Which, the more splendid, may not please him more; So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Broken Promises Quotes By Anthony Liccione

So long there are women around, a cheater will cheat against his promise. — Anthony Liccione

Broken Promises Quotes By Franklin P. Adams

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. — Franklin P. Adams

Broken Promises Quotes By C.F.W. Walther

...according to God's Word, we should not give a singe drop of evangelical consolation to those who are still living in sin. ON THE OTHER HAND, we should not address the slightest threat or rebuke to the broken hearted--but only promises delivering consolation and grace, forgiveness of sin and righteousness. Life and salvation. — C.F.W. Walther

Broken Promises Quotes By Barack Obama

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

Broken Promises Quotes By Rick Riordan

People lie. Promises are broken. A — Rick Riordan

Broken Promises Quotes By Dee Henderson

God's been fixing broken people ever since sin came into the world. Give Him time. He's not done. God promises He will work for the good in all things. What happened to you isn't beyond His ability to recover. — Dee Henderson

Broken Promises Quotes By Sian Reynolds

My mascara a mess, harsh words for your princess
Boy, you and your promises
If your goal was to love, you scored an epic miss
Now you'll just have memories — Sian Reynolds

Broken Promises Quotes By Jodi Picoult

Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me. — Jodi Picoult

Broken Promises Quotes By Helen Prejean

If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises. — Helen Prejean

Broken Promises Quotes By Shannon A. Thompson

Her kiss was a good-bye and a promise and a dream. — Shannon A. Thompson

Broken Promises Quotes By Richard Paul Evans

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. (pg. 161) — Richard Paul Evans

Broken Promises Quotes By Ayn Rand

Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil. — Ayn Rand

Broken Promises Quotes By Kate Chopin

It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her. — Kate Chopin

Broken Promises Quotes By Jonathan Swift

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. — Jonathan Swift

Broken Promises Quotes By Orrin Hatch

By admitting they have no contingency plan to assist the millions that may lose subsidies, the administration confirms how the misguided law is unworkable for the American people, i'm committed to working with my Republican colleagues on how Congress can respond to help those hurt by Obamacare's broken promises. — Orrin Hatch

Broken Promises Quotes By Frederic Farrar

When God's children pass under the shadow of the cross of Calvary, they know that through that shadow lies their passage to the great white throne. For them Gethsemane is as paradise. God fills it with sacred presences; its solemn silence is broken by the music of tender promises, its awful darkness softened and brightened by the sunlight of Heavenly faces and the music of angel wings. — Frederic Farrar

Broken Promises Quotes By Leo Christopher

She opened her eyes
and didn't wonder anymore.
He tells her everyday
how beautiful she is to him,
that she is his favorite,
his only his love.

That when the sun comes up
every morning he chooses her
and that he always will.

And today, for whatever reason
she rested in his reassurance.

She finally released
all the broken promises
in her past and believed
she could trust her heart
just this once more. — Leo Christopher