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Enemies' promises were made to be broken.
Sep 10, 2025
As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.
A broken promise is not a lie.
This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.
There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision of her future life - and that is, whether to be bitter or not. Women often come to this in their late thirties or early forties. They are at the point where they are full up to their ears with everything and they've "had it" and "the last straw has broken the camel's back" and they're "pissed off and pooped out." Their dreams of their twenties may be lying in a crumple. There may be broken hearts, broken marriages, broken promises.
Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.
You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.
Don't fix what's not broken.
Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.
I don't think Hank's home run record will ever be broken. There's no way.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
I think the one advantage to a failed - recovering, but a pretty broken - economy, and a lot of broken promises, is that we've pulled the veils from our eyes way earlier than most people do, and realize "Hey, you know what, maybe I should try do this thing that I really care about, and why not spend the time now during my best years to get into knitting, or coding, or swamp boat sailing." And there's this resource called the Internet that's going to provide you with a stage and a library for all of those things.
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.
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.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
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.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.
We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our past, we will move ahead together in writing a new, brighter chapter in our joint history.
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is released into the ether each night, as the mind falls into the sleep state. Each morning it returns to the conscious state reinforced with the cosmic currents. That which has been imaged will surely and certainly be manifested. You can rely, young man, upon this ageless promise as surely as you can rely upon the eternally unbroken promise of sunrise... and of Spring.
Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.
I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.
A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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.