T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The promise of a kiss will carry us forward.”
Source: Boy Meets Boy
“The promise of a reward can help encourage children to keep at a hard task. Offer something fun each time the child takes time to practice.”
Source: Boo's Shoes - A Rabbit and Fox Story: Learn To Tie Shoelaces
“The promise of abundance is not an endless flow of goods but a sufficiency produced with a minimum of unpleasant exertion.”
“The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.”
“The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.”
“The promise of American capitalism is that it makes people richer, freer and more independent. But since the introduction of Fed, the currency in which Americans keep score has so addled the figures, we scarcely know if we are winning or losing. The dollar we knew as a child - in the 1950's - is only worth a tenth as much today.”
“The promise of artificial intelligence for achieving sustainable development goals needs comprehensive safety and ethical standards and protocols.”
Source: Ethical AI Systems: Frameworks, Principles, and Advanced Practices
“The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.”
“The promise of celebrity is a transcendental human state of existence. It's not real. We do know the fact that celebrities as mortal beings exist and if you are looking for love by being famous or being around the famous - ultimately that goes away.”
“The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes.”
“The promise of easy money is but a wolf's trap laid out for sheep seeking taller grass.”
“The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.”
“The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.”
“The promise of equality is not the same as true equality.”
Source: Lean In for Graduates
“The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.”
Source: The Final Testament
“The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise.”
Source: Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation
“The promise of God is that you are His son. Her offspring. Its likeness. His equal. Ah...here is where you get hung up. You can accept "His son," "offspring," "likeness," but you recoil at being called "His equal." It is too much to accept. Too much bigness, too much wonderment-too much responsibility. For if you are God's equal, that means nothing is being done to you-and all things are created by you. There can be no more victims and no more villains-only outcomes of your thought about a thing.”
“The promise of learning is a delusion.... Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, that the learning process is extended in this way, so that from this standpoint none of us ever graduates from college, for time is an emulsion, and probably thinking not to grow up is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate.”
Source: Selected poems
“The promise of mutually assured
destruction had a way of calming even the fiercest hearts.”
Source: Black Legion
“The promise of our country is that the rules are fair. If you work hard and play by the rules, you can earn your share of America's blessings. Those are the beliefs I learned from my parents.”
“The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.”
Source: The Bible Jesus Read
“The promise of reward for righteousness applies only on the collective, systemic level, yet does not work for the individual. A society that perpetrates injustice against its own members will inevitably fall; however just as wicked individuals often get away with murder, the sinless often suffer.”
Source: Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
“The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.”
“The promise of stretching is not success, it's learning. It's self-insight. It's the promise of gleaning the answers to some of the most important and vexing questions of our lives: What do we want? What can we do? Who can we be? What can we endure?”
“The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as an independent force is covered by the technological bluff, which refers it to the agenda of the future and disguises the deficiencies of the present.”
“The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.”
“The promise of the Bible is not to go to heaven and live in a mansion. The promise is to partake of the righteousness of Jesus Christ: To live a godly, sinless life, which results in deliverance from torment on every level, in our lifetime. It does not matter what your torment is! There is deliverance in leading a righteous life according to the standard set by the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Source: The End Of The Commandment Is Godliness
“The promise of the Internet has always been that it was gonna be this unprecedentedly potent instrument of liberation and democratization. It would let you explore things and meet people who you wouldn't otherwise get to know, in completely free and unconstrained ways.”
“The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It's the ability of individuals to choreograph that information in idiosyncratic ways, the hope that individuals might feel invited by the gravitational pull of a broad and open commons to 'rip, mix, and burn' - to curate.”
“The promise of tomorrow comes now. Thinking of feelings without attraction, is the only clear seasoning of passionate love.”
“The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced”
“The promise to leave the European Union, end the supremacy of EU law and take back control of our democracy. With my leadership, it will be delivered.”
“The promise to share the burden of our defense has gone unfulfilled for too many for too long, and it erodes the very foundation of NATO.”
“The promise to take back control of our borders. I will end free movement, introduce an Australian-style points-based system for immigration, and bring numbers down. With my leadership, it will be delivered.”
“The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter.”
“The promise to use the money we currently send to Brussels and invest it instead on the priorities of the British people - principally in the NHS - and to cut VAT on domestic fuel. With my leadership, it will be delivered.”
“The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.”
“The Promised Land was a tangible representation of God's ultimate desire for His people, but they failed to comprehend His gift for at least three reasons: It was unconditionally promised, it was outrageously generous, and it was absolutely free. None of those make sense in the world as we know it.”
Source: Jesus: The Greatest Life of All
“The Promised Land, for many people, though, is something that's far off in the future. People are saved, but they don't feel victory. They feel like they're in a wilderness and they're wandering. And so this book of Joshua gives us a picture of how we can come out of the wilderness in our own spiritual lives and enter into a season of victory.”
“The promised notification was hanging over her head. The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors -and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.”
Source: Mansfield Park
“The promised return of Christ should motivate you toward daily holy living.”
“The promised saviour of all times is human mind itself! All the solutions humanity needs for its endless problems shall be found by the human mind. If you are looking for a prophet to save the world, do not seek, for he is here, the human mind itself!”
“The promises of Fidel Castro's so-called revolution of pluralism and democracy, were and continue to be a false promise and a betrayal of all basic human rights.”
“The promises of God are equal to current coin. Therefore, I must act on the promises as I would if I actually had the cash.”
“The promises of God are His guarantees amid life's uncertainties. They're the basis of all our life of faith.”
“The promises of God are his prophesy.”
“The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.”
Source: The Rod, the Root and the Flower
“THE PROMISES OF GOD ARE WAITING FOR THOSE WHO RENEW THEIR MIND!”
Source: Open Your Eyes: Discover Who You Are in the Realm of the Spirit