Pastoral Resources

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.

If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.

I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.

I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren.

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Promise a lot and give even more.

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.