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It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises. -- Chief Joseph
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. -- Buffalo Bill
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. -- Jonathan Swift
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. -- Tennessee Williams
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them. -- William Hazlitt
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. -- Albert Camus
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, why did they believe me? -- Jack Handey
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. -- Quintilian
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. -- James M. Barrie
Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken. -- Ajay Devgan
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. -- Abigail Adams
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. -- Warren Buffett
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass. -- Christopher Columbus
In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them. -- Isabelle Adjani
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. -- Thomas Fuller
God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half. -- Paddy Chayefsky
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. -- Hannah Arendt
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives. -- Jane Rule
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. -- Charlotte Bronte
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up. -- Noel Redding
It's scary how easy promises were broken. -- Jenny Han
Bad promises are better broken than kept. -- Abraham Lincoln
Enemies' promises were made to be broken. -- Aesop
It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises. -- Reince Priebus
Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly. -- Colleen Hoover
This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people, -- John Connolly
Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood. -- Susan Abulhawa
But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards. -- Sherman Alexie
She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors. -- Jane Austen
I'm tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept. -- Sidney Sheldon
She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets. -- Susanna Clarke
I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken. -- Jodi Picoult
The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an unspoken cosmic rule. -- Bree Despain
He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken. -- Haruki Murakami
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
It's important that we remind the American people of what they already know about Obamacare - that the promises that were made were all broken. -- Mike Pence
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
I never made promises lightly There may have been some that I've broken But I swear in the days still left We will walk in fields of gold -- Sting
Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than "I'll never leave you. -- Clive Barker
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
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
Well thank you, me old gobbler,' said Mr. Gum handing over some money that Billy William would later discover to be made out of lies and broken promises. -- Andy Stanton
Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises. -- Rick Yancey
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
We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people. -- Daniel Webster

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