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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. -- Thomas Fuller
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
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America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy. -- Gordon Brown
You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference. -- Patricia Hewitt
To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn't do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress. -- Noam Chomsky
I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise. -- Ron Wyden
I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part. -- Mitt Romney
I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.' -- will.i.am
I can't compete with making promises you can't keep. -- Hillary Clinton
Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them. -- John Green
If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises. -- Evan Esar
Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them. -- Seth
Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand. -- Seth Godin
The promises we break are usually such as we are most forward in making. -- Norm MacDonald
Stop making flamboyant promises. Earn the people's trust first, then do more than they expect -- Constance Chuks Friday
In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world. -- Katy Perry
I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future. -- Jean Hersey
Making fake promises while wearing a fancy dress... that isn't enough. Promises take more work than that. -- Jackson Pearce
I'm fighting for people who cannot wait for changes, and I'm not making promises that I cannot keep. -- Hillary Clinton
Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities -- Neil Young
Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them. -- Hannah Arendt
Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never! -- Cornelia Funke
As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep. -- Michael Chabon
Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees. -- Jay Leno
Love is not about making promises but it's about believing, no matter how far you are or how frequently you talk, you know you both are made for each other -- Anamika Mishra
Donald Trump trying to do to the American voter what he did to the people that signed up for this course: He's making promises he has no intention of keeping. -- Mitt Romney

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