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America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.


Archibald MacLeish

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RAND PAUL Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live ...
GREIL MARCUS Be careful with those promises who whisper while wooing and loving someone. There are those that tak...
ALFA H Promises, promise, promises. These promises we have all heard before... Nobody pays much attention t...
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Life always promises to give the world a person to take away everything bad.
ELOISE DYSON Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.
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VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER Everywhere around the world They're coming to America Everytime that flags unfurled They're coming t...
NEIL DIAMOND It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.
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TIMOTHY MURIS TAKE A STAND RIGHT NOW! BECAUSE tomorrow IS THE ONLY DAY OF THE WEEK THAT NEVER COMES!!
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RED CLOUD For Nation States, and the adversaries within America's boarders (special interest groups, cyber cal...
AMERICA The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in ...
CARL JUNG The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG I made promises. I intend to keep them.
MEREDITH WILD To make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
DR. SHAILESH THAKER I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery,...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
ZSA ZSA GABOR To err is human, but it feels divine.
MAE WEST The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK America needs NATO in this situation. It will take pressure off America and the idea that America is...
AMYAS GODFREY Hope is holding on to the promises of God.
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ABIODUN OYEWOLE If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their pli...
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HAROLD S. GENEEN What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concep...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR. We have to face it: in America today the way to have fun and celebrate is to break a store window an...
RICHARD J. DALEY What about your
Your 10,000 promises?
That you gave to me (to me, babe)
Your 10,00...
BACKSTREET BOYS In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of ri...
PAULO COELHO We break promises bt memories break us..
OLASOT Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
DANISH PROVERB Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.
DUTCH PROVERB It is more honourable to fulfill a promise than to make promises
ETC WANYANWU Japan needs to follow through with its promises. The continued embargo costs the U.S. beef industry ...
CRAIG THOMAS Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connecte...
DAN BROWN A lot of people in America tend to take the military for granted,
CAROLE KING Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; i...
EDMUND BURKE It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are...
HAROLD S. GENEEN It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are...
HAROLD S. GENEEN Promises are perhaps made in haste or out of emotions, that is why people do not afford to keep them
TARIF NAAZ Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
THORNTON WILDER Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your ...
MARK CAINE To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that v...
MARK TWAIN A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
ARABIAN PROVERB Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.
JOHN GREEN I don't want to make promises I can't keep.
JESSE VENTURA Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
HOLLY BLACK Some things you don't have to promise. You just do.
RICK YANCEY I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promi...
JENNIFER DONNELLY Life is full of broken promises.
SUZANNE KRAMB Maybe I've got to be sufficiently broken by life's many broken promises to be sufficiently compelled...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really ge...
ERYKAH BADU The truth is I try to take people as I find them.
TONY ABBOTT You have to follow through on promises and demonstrate good stewardship. Much of our fund raising ha...
DENNIS DAUGAARD I will take a backseat to no one in a commitment to civil rights in America.
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JERRY FALWELL, JR. Keep all your promises, don't take what doesn't belong to you, and always look after those less fort...
REBECCA RUPP I try to keep my promises.
ALAN GRAYSON I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, prom...
HAROLD S. GENEEN He is a serial breaker of promises,
TONY BLAIR The air is full of empty promises.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more th...
MORLEY SAFER He'd given her his vow: to take care of her, to keep her from hurt or pain, from wanting for anythin...
MELISSA MARR The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Hi...
BILLY GRAHAM Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of the...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on ...
THEODORE FORSTMANN My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.
ROY T. BENNETT The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.
SUN YAT-SEN To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E. W. HOWE Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in uncle...
DAN GROAT What [cities] cannot do is take property from A and give it to B just because B promises to create m...
LEE MCGRATH The time for grand speeches is over. We must now put our words into action. Now is the time for us t...
ANDERS RASMUSSEN The time for grand speeches is over. We must now put our words into action. Now is the time for us t...
ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN Truthfully, God always keeps His promises but we often break our promises.
JAIME CONTRERAS America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
ALEXIS TOCQUEVILLE America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
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