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"The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly."
"Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all."
"If you break little promises, you'll break big ones."
"What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage."
"I can't promise results, but I can promise a common destiny."
"Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path."
"Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada."
"The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?"
"Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think! Would you commit your promise to that, Smeagol? It will hold you. But it is more treacherous than you are. It may twist your words. Beware!"
"I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them."
"What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities."
"In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises."
"With the advance of refrigeration, I hope that along with the frozen foods someday we will have frozen conversation. A person will be able to keep a frozen promise indefinitely."
"We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us."
"We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at all - of any species. What we want and need is the enlightened and active interest of all men of intelligence and goodwill in their government, and their participation in its functions."
"Never run out on me again. No matter what happens, you stay and fight. Yell at me, argue, throw something at me, whatever you want to do, but never walk away from me. Promise me that."
"A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way."
"'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise."
"His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people."
"An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is already ahead in developing the same product."
