“Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.” PeopleKindUseEyeAirPromiseJudgmentExpectationsPerformancesDeedsArguingSicknessTestamentFashionable Book:Tragedies. Poems Source: Tragedies. Poems
“We believe only in deeds and acts and not in declarations. We are fed up with all those declarations, promises.” BelievePromiseDeedsFedsDeclarationFed Up Author:Ariel Sharon
“Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.” ReasonFactsCareJusticeCompassionViolencePromiseTruth IsDeedsDeceitCloaksAbnegation Author:Steven Erikson
“Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.” GreaterAliveAdvicePromiseExpectationsDeedsStirring Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“I believe in America. I believe in her purpose and her promise. I believe her best days have not yet been lived. I believe her greatest deeds are reserved for the generations to come.” BelieveAmericaPurposeI BelieveGenerationsPromiseDeedsI Believe InReserved Author:Rick Perry
“Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.” PersonsHelpingWallPromiseSalvationDeedsWoundsInvisibleShockBitesCastlesSlapFoilsCastle Walls Book:Second Glance: A Novel Source: Second Glance: A Novel