Promised Quotes

But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation.

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

As we begin to leave Afghanistan, are we fooling ourselves about what we are leaving behind or what we have promised the people of Afghanistan? Especially the women and girls?

Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

I never promised you a rose garden.

When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew.

In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.

Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.

I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.

California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

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.

Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the benefits they were promised, and they should realize that, were it not for these veterans, there would be nothing to hand out.

You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.

You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.

You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

You're never promised your next breath.

One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.

With this album, I tried not to think too much. If I heard a song that I loved, I promised myself I wouldn't over-think it. If I loved it and if I wanted to cut it, I would.

Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.