Best Broken Promises Quotes

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn’t been broken, but I don’t know of anyone whose heart hasn’t been broken.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

Enemies’ promises were made to be broken.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises.

A broken promise is not a lie.

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It’s always the rest of us who get broken in half.

By admitting they have no contingency plan to assist the millions that may lose subsidies, the administration confirms how the misguided law is unworkable for the American people. I’m committed to working with my Republican colleagues on how Congress can respond to help those hurt by Obamacare’s broken promises.

Promises are worse than lies. You don’t just make them believe, you also make them hope.

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.

Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town.

As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

It’s easy to be led astray when you’re so broken. People take advantage of you.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.

Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

Stephanie Kallos’s lovely and heartfelt first novel is a gift. A story of broken hearts and broken promises, it is also the story of the ways we put things back together-messily, beautifully, and ultimately triumphantly. Kallos is a writer to watch, and one who, mercifully, still believes in happy endings.

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

When a man takes an oath… he’s holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

What does Obama mean keep working on closing Gitmo? It’s a broken promise. Obama said we were gonna close Gitmo the first day he was in office and it never happened.

Don’t fix what’s not broken.

I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.

I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. ‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’ To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in there somewhere.