Pastoral Resources

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Let God's promises shine on your problems.

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.

When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?