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"Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn’t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google."
"All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled."
"I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn."
"And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope."
"He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion."
"It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold."
"Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word."
"He was ever precise in promise-keeping."
"Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss."
"Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic."
"We'll be back. I promise you that."
"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony, and even justice."
"Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah."
"The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life."
"A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception."
"Love the world With your heart's dreams. Serve the world With your life's promises."
"There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around."
"When you promise something, you must fulfill it."
"A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance."
"Even in tragedy, God through His Word offers hope for those who seek and believe. It starts with the promise of a better tomorrow, of life everlasting, of eternal peace. It's called faith, and it offers hope where none existed."
