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“Heroes aren't athletes who set new sports records, or Hollywood actors who make 'daring' films or politicians who make bold promises. Heroes are people who place themselves at risk for the benefit of others.”

People Film Actors Sports Records Risk Hero Politician Promise Benefits Hollywood Athlete Daring

Author:Oliver North

“It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 - so they promise. And I believe it, too.”

Believe Looks I Believe Promise

Author:John Lennon

“God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.”

War Joy Causes Promise Midst Bitterness Abandonment Fulfilment

Author:Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

“The Bible is full of God's promises to provide for us spiritually and materially, to never forsake us, to give us peace in times of difficult circumstances, to cause all circumstances to work together for our good, and finally to bring us safely home to glory. Not one of those promises is dependent upon our performance. They are all dependent on the grace of God given to us through Jesus Christ.”

“He [Jesus Christ] loves to see poor sinners coming to Him, He is pleased to see them lie at His feet pleading His promises; and if you thus come to Christ, He will not send you away without His Spirit; no, but will receive and bless you.”

Ifs Spirit Lying Jesus Christ Poor Feet Promise Jesus Christ Sinner Bless Pleading Christ Love

Book:Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith

Source: Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith

“The goal is glorifying God by drawing circles around the promises, miracles, and dreams He wants for you.”

Want Dream Goal Promise Miracle Drawing Circles Glorifying God

Author:Mark Batterson

“Jesus did not call upon people to repent, or fast, or observe the sabbath. He did not threaten with hell or promise heaven.”

People Jesus Heaven Hell Promise Repent Sabbath

Author:Robert W. Funk

“The Lord spoke to me and said, He is coming as the Ancient of Days and because He is the Ancient of Days there is an ancient key that He carries. And in the carrying of this key you have seen the enemy take his place between you and the promise at this level.”

Said Levels Lord Enemy Keys Promise Ancient Carrie Spokes

Author:Chuck Pierce

“Fifteen years ago, God unequivocally and undeniably gave me Isaiah 22:22 as a life-verse. "Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder, when he opens no one will shut, when he shuts no one will open." After 40 plus confirmations over a two-week period - yes, more than 40 - I became thoroughly convinced this verse was both a promise and a weapon for me. I have since used the verse hundreds of times throughout America - in all 50 states and in Washington DC - to open and close spiritual doors for the Lord.”

Years Two States America Spiritual Used House Lord Doors Week Keys Periods Promise Weapons Years Ago Convinced Shoulders Plus Verses Fifteen Two Weeks Confirmation Fifteen Years Washington Dc

Author:Dutch Sheets

“By your words, you form your destiny - what you say within yourself determines the end promise of your life! Your future lives in your mouth!”

Ends Form Destiny Promise Mouths Determine Our Future Our Destiny Your Future Your Destiny Future Life

Author:Paula White

“It is a tough city to live in (Detroit) but a great city to be around. There is so much promise. There just needs to be a movement to help push the city beyond the automobile industry. The music business needs to learn how to support itself.”

Needs Helping Cities Support Movement Industry Promise Tough Automobile Music Business Detroit Great Cities Automobile Industry

Author:MC Serch

“Like all of you I'm angry. I'm angry at what's happening to our nation. Citizens, it's time to take our country back. Bombastic insults wont take it back. Political rhetoric that promises a lot and delivers little, won't take it back. All of our problems can be solved. All of our wounds can be healed by a tested leader who is willing to fight for the character of our nation.”

Littles Country Character Problem Political Fighting Nations Leader Willing Citizens Promise Happenings Angry Wounds Our Country Insult Rhetoric Tested Healed Bombastic Political Rhetoric

Author:Carly Fiorina

“I feel that if entertainment is that important, the media, then it's my duty, not only to mankind but to God, to fulfill the promise that I carry on this work. If someone, for instance, can forget their pains and their ills and their strife by watching any performer then I think this work is worthwhile.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Important Pain Forget Mankind Media Duty Promise Entertainment Instance Performers Worthwhile Strife

Author:Liberace

“I promise you, the next time there is attack on - an attack on this country, the first thing people are going to want to know is, why didn't we know about it and why didn't we stop it? And the answer better not be because we didn't have access to records or information that would have allowed us to identify these killers before they attacked.”

People Knows Want Firsts Country Next Answers Records Information Promise Access Killers Next Time I Promise

Author:Marco Rubio

“ISIS is winning the propaganda war. They are recruiting people, including Americans, to join them, with the promise that they are joining this great apocalyptic movement that is going to defeat the West.”

People War Winning Movement Promise West Including Defeat Propaganda Isis Joining Apocalyptic

Author:Marco Rubio

“Commitment is making a choice to follow through or to honor. Engagement and guarantee - we all love guarantees in life. Making a commitment, whether it's for something like climate change or to my family, or even to my fans - what that means to me is, whether on paper or verbally or spiritually, making a promise to guarantee that I will fulfill whatever agreement we have.”

Mean Choices Fans Honor Promise Paper Commitment My Family Climate Climate Change Guarantees Agreement Engagement Guarantees That Follow Through Guarantees In Life

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Marco Rubio was fighting to grant amnesty and not to secure the border, I was fighting to secure the border. And this also goes to trust, listening on to campaign trails. Candidates all the time make promises. You know, Marco said," he learned that the American people didn't trust the federal government."”

People Knows Said Government Fighting Listening Promise Campaigns Secure Borders Candidates Grants Federal Government Trails Marcos Amnesty

Author:Ted Cruz

“Hillary Clinton has aligned herself with Barack Obama on ISIS, Iran and the economy. It's an alliance doomed to fail. My proven record suggests that - my detailed plans will fortify our national and economic security. And my proven record as governor makes - will give you a sense that I don't make false promises.”

Giving Economy Records Plans Failing Economic Security Promise Clinton Barack Iran Governors Doomed Proven Isis Alliances Economic Security False Promises

Author:Jeb Bush

“There is some consensus: There's obsession, there's never satiety, and there's always remorse. For me, the big thing is that you're always breaking a promise - for example, you promise yourself you're just going to have coffee with a man, then before you know it, you're in bed together.”

Knows Men Bigs Together Example Promise Bed Coffee Obsession Big Things Remorse Consensus Satiety

Author:Susan Cheever

“No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.”

Promise Directors Casts Officers I Promise

Author:Michael Caine

“I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.”

World Promise Grandfather I Promise

Author:Michael Caine

“I know all the problems of the schools. They're rigid, they're bureaucratic, they've got a lot of problems. But it's such an important institution, and holds such promise.”

Knows Important Problem School Promise Institutions

Author:Edward Zigler

“I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can't lose.”

I Can Games Loses Internet Promise I Promise

Author:Kevin Hart

“Your idea may not be exactly God's idea, but I can promise you this: God's way will be better than your way.”

Way May I Can Ideas Promise

Author:Joel Osteen

“I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a corpse, he is sure to win. There is no doubt of that. Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of the Soul of the leaders-the 'live to fight another day' doctrine.”

Ifs Soul Fighting Winning Loss Leader Doubt Promise Battle Destruction Defeat Dues Doctrine No Doubt Corpses Conqueror Another Day

Author:George S. Patton

“Our first half is about how to make a living, and our second half has the promise of being about how to make a life.”

Firsts Half Promise

Author:Bob Buford

“What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.”

Source: Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

“All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.”

I Can Records Promise Default Snapshots

Author:Alanis Morissette

“Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you'll promise her anything.”

Way Littles Promise Perfume Floats Anesthetics

Author:Bob Hope

“You are further to declare that we hold sacred the rights of conscience, and may promise to the whole people, solemnly in our name, the free and undisturbed exercise of their religion. And...that all civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.”

People May Persons Whole Christian Names Rights Exercise Promise Office Conscience Sacred Civil Rights Denominations Christian Denominations

Author:Roger Sherman

“A great wine served in fine glassware is beautiful. But it is also seductive and full of strange promise and perhaps the slightest hint of naughtiness, all waiting to be uncoiled.”

Beautiful Waiting Strange Fine Promise Wine Hints Seductive Great Wine

Author:Dave Chambers

“I made a promise to myself that I would try to introduce something unexpected in every single episode of the series. It was largely to amuse myself as much as anything. I didn't ever want the audience to feel that they knew everything.”

Want Feels Trying Made Audience Promise Series Unexpected Introducing Episodes Something Unexpected

Author:Patrick Stewart

“[Barack Obama failed to sell a health care reform plan to American voters] because the utter implausibility of its central promise - expanded coverage at lower cost - led voters to conclude that it would lead ultimately to more government, more taxes and more debt.”

Government Care Plans Promise Cost Taxes Sells Debt Reform Barack Health Care Voters Coverage Health Care Reform American Voters

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.”

Ifs Remember Lost Promise

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.”

I Can Use My Own Leader Promise Judgment Independence Critical Faculty Educate I Promise Independence Of Thought

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“I can't promise results, but I can promise a common destiny.”

I Can Results Common Destiny Promise

Author:Warren Buffett

“All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management.”

Promise Draws Performances Organization Management Investment Superiors Emphasis Unreasonable Inference

Author:Warren Buffett

“...when I prayed to receive Jesus Christ as my Savior, I had made that promise...: 'If You'll make Your will for my clear, I'll do it no matter what!'”

Ifs Made Matter Jesus Christ Clear Promise Jesus Christ No Matter What Savior

Book:Business by the Book: The Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for Business Men and Women

Source: Business by the Book: The Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for Business Men and Women

“Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos.”

Way Humans Made Remember Form Desire Given Emotion Return Promise Various Storytelling Taboo Human Emotions

Book:Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

Source: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep.”

People Pay Cutting Ought Promise Taxes Tired Debt National Debt

Author:John McCain

“There's one big difference between me and the others - I won't take every last dime of the surplus and spend it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy. I'll use the bulk of the surplus to secure Social Security far into the future to keep our promise to the greatest generation.”

Use Bigs Lasts Social Differences Cutting Generations Security Promise Taxes Benefits Secure Wealthy Social Security Dimes Tax Cuts Surplus Greatest Generation

Author:John McCain

“Gary Bauer has done great things, ... I want to promise you again, you may agree with me, you may disagree with me, but I will do great things.”

Want May Done Promise Agree Great Things Disagree You Again Gary

Author:John McCain

“Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.”

Knows Life Is Enjoy Mystery Promise

Author:Mother Teresa

“North Korea is making several demands in exchange for giving up their nuclear program, including a promise from America not to attack them. Which is a little strange because for us to attack them we would have to have slam dunk proof that they have weapons of mass destruction. I mean, for Gods sakes people, we're not maniacs. It would have to be an air-tight case. We wouldn't just come in there and start bombing you.”

“There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.”

Greater Promise Fraud

Author:Stephen Harper

“If we make ourselves worthy of America's ideals, if we do not forget that our nation was founded on the premise that all men are creatures of God's making, the world will come to know that it is free men who carry forward the true promise of human progress and dignity.”

Ifs Knows Men World Humans America Nations Forget Progress Promise Creatures Ideals Dignity Worthy Premises Free Man Human Progress

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959

“I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.”

Mother Promise I Promise Cuban

Author:Fidel Castro

“The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.”

“Whatever you and your team decide your new brand will stand for, deliver on that promise. That's the only way you'll ever control your brand. And beware: brands always mean something. If you don't define what the brand means, your competitors will.”

Ifs Way Mean Team Promise Brands Competitors

Author:Richard Branson

“We are seeing with great grief that America remains quiet as Turkey struggles against terrorism. Because there were promises given to us, and they need to be kept. If not, we can take care of our own business.”

Ifs Needs Care America Given Grief Struggle Seeing Promise Quiet Remains Terrorism Take Care Turkeys Own Business

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan