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My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise. – Richard Milhous Nixon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul. – Douglas MacArthur	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history. – Ronald Reagan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love. – Walt Whitman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Frank Wilma, I promise you whatever scum did this, not one man on this force will rest one minute before until he's behind bars. Now, let's grab a bite to eat. – Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years thee will I clean up after thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.' – Alan Marshall Beck	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you wish to be a sucess in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. – Napoleon Bonaparte	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Being filled with the Holy Spirit, then, is a matter of obedience to the Word of God. The filling of the Spirit that all experienced at Pentecost was a matter of a promise being fulfilled. Today, the believer is to be filled in obedience to the command of Ephesians 518, continuously, not merely by a single, crisis experience. The Christian life is a growth process toward maturity. – Clarence Cramer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Thirty-the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. – F Scott	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those – Gilbert Highet	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. – Barbara Charline Jordan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. – Nikita Khrushchev	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.... – Ursala Lequin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In order to become successful, you must only promise what you can deliver and deliver more than what you've promised. – Beau K. Ly	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. – Edna St. Vincent Millay	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office. – Joe Moore	added by anonymous 14 years ago
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people. – Ralph Nader	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. – Anthony Powell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We thank you, Almighty God, for the gift of water. Over it the Holy Spirit moved in the beginning of creation. Through it you led the children of Israel out of their bondage in Egypt into the land of promise. In it your Son Jesus received the baptism of John and we are buried with Christ in his death. By it we share in his resurrection. Through it we are reborn by the Holy Spirit. – Book of Common Prayer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If someone cheats you, get your money back. If someone slanders you, call him to account. If someone makes a promise, see that it is kept If you have to be a pest, then be one, and be proud of it. – Donald G. Smith	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. – Daniel Webster	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Its a shame a hollow promise doesn't ring hollow – Aaron J. Munzer	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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