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“If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.”

Ifs Believe Today Political Leader Tomorrow Promise Suicide Believe In Me Murderer Political Leaders

Author:Katherine Anne Porter

“Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee and croissants, quite peculiar to itself. The people welcome a new day as if they were certain of liking it, the shopkeepers pull up their blinds serene in the expectation of good trade, the workers go happily to their work, the people who have sat up all night in night-clubs go happily to their rest, the orchestra of motor-car horns, of clanking trams, of whistling policemen tunes up for the daily symphony, and everywhere is joy.”

Source: The Nancy Mitford Omnibus

“Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it to silence you, the way you tell a child you will take it to Disneyland if it will stop crying.”

“If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story.”

Ifs Stories Promise Absolutes Intention Manifestation Dominant Improving

Book:Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition

Source: Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition

“I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism.”

Ifs Eye Atheism Promise Priests I Promise Observant

Author:Matthew Yglesias

“Every great religion on the planet, regardless of what spiritual or cultural tradition from which it is that it emerges, announces and declares that spiritual mastery is an open possibility for every member of the human race. If that is not true, then the highest promise of God is a lie.”

Ifs Humans Spiritual Lying Race Possibility Planets Promise Members Highest Tradition Human Race Mastery

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Other people had strived for freedom and promise and ratatatata but the Constitution [of USA] was the first time we codified it aspirationally and wrote it down and put it up on a wall and said, "this is us." If your father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, you don't have to be a cobbler.”

People Ifs Firsts Said Father Wall Promise First Time Constitution Down And Usa Cobblers

Author:Ben Dreyfuss

“Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.”

Ifs May Use Novel Forever Failing Mystery Reader Kings Honor Promise Pages Criminals Stealing Mysterious Poison Plot Conspiracy Swear Moderation Clue Gang Swarms Mystery Novels

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“Buddhism doesn't promise to fulfill our desires. Instead it says, 'You feel unfulfilled? That's okay. That's normal. Everybody feels unfulfilled. You will always feel unfulfilled. There is no problem with feeling unfulfilled. In fact, if you learn to see it the right way, that very lack of fulfillment is the greatest thing you can ever experience.' This is the realistic outlook.”

Ifs Way Feels Facts Feelings Problem Desire Learning Buddhism Promise Normal Okay Experience Fulfillment Realistic Right Way No Problem Outlook

Book:Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between

Source: Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between

“If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it.”

Ifs Promise Customers

Author:Merv Griffin

“Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.”

People Ifs Mind Would Be Promise Infinite Forests Hills Canada Lakes Destination Repose Canada Day Canada Funny Happy Canada Day Canada Being Great Places Of Peace

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to its shimmering red presence in the clear night sky. It is like a glowing ember in a field of ethereal lights, projecting energy and promise. It inspires visions of an approachable world. The mind vaults to thoughts of what might have been (if Mars were a litter closer to the warming Sun) and of what could be (if humans were one day to plant colonies there).”

Source: Mars Beckons: The Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in Space

“But I have to tell you, I get it all day, every day, I'm not sexy enough, or I'm not cool enough, or if I did this I would be accepted. Let me tell you one thing: the sexiest thing is class. I promise you that each and every one of you is made to be who you are. That is what's so attractive and beautiful. Please don't forget that, even when it gets hard.”

Ifs Made Hard Enough Would Be Beautiful Forget Class One Thing Please Promise Let Me Who You Are Sexy Accepted Attractive I Promise Be Who You Are Sexiest

Author:Selena Gomez

“If any has stumbled in his journey, there is a way back. The process is called repentance. Our Savior died to provide you and me that blessed gift. Though the path is difficult, the promise is real: 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow' (Isaiah 1:18).”

Ifs Way Real Process Difficult Sin White Path Journey Promise Died Blessed Snow Repentance Savior Scarlet

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“These days I think people give up too easily. Everyone says it’s about compromise, which it is. Love, compromise, promises, presents help. But ultimately it’s about not giving up. People are led to believe that if it’s not perfect then just ditch it and change it, these days. That’s a mistake.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Believe Helping Perfect Mistake Promise Giving Up Compromise These Days Not Giving Up Not Perfect

Author:Simon Le Bon

“I promise if you keep searching for everything beautiful in this world, you will eventually become it.”

Ifs World Beautiful This World Promise I Promise

Author:Tyler Kent

“If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.”

Ifs Ends Promise Misery Rate Our Society Affluent Sumptuous

Author:John W. Gardner

“A lot of people hate my skepticism, and I think I understand why. The psychics offer wonders and endless possibilities in a world that often seems difficult and mundane. They promise health, wealth, wisdom, eternal life. But if you examine the record, it's not the psychics but the hard-nosed scientists who have actually delivered the things that improve human life. And, to me, science describes a world far more interesting than any psychic fantasy. It's a good world -- not perfect -- but it's ours. So we'd better learn to live with it, the way it is.”

“The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.”

Ifs Humans Faces Promise Deserve Weak Appearance Deception Wicked Guarantees Consideration Betrayed Malice Whips Brows Human Faces

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.”

Ifs Reading Promise Library Pessimism Gloomy

Author:Mason Cooley

“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.”

Ifs Country Hard Play America Belief Parent Share Hard Work Promise Blessing Fairs Our Country

Author:Geraldine Ferraro

“You must, to get through life well, practice industry with economy, never create a debt for anything that is not absolutely necessary, and if you make a promise to pay money at a day certain, be sure to comply with it. If you do not, you lay yourself liable to have your feelings injured and your reputation destroyed with the just imputation of violating your word.”

Ifs Wells Feelings Certain Pay Practice Economy Industry Promise Lays Debt Reputation Destroyed Injured Liable

Author:Andrew Jackson

“I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes -- which is what I always try to do in every movie -- then I feel like I'm doing my job.”

Ifs Giving Feels Trying I Can Two Jobs Work Policy Promise Scene Strategy Individuality Ideology

Author:Nicolas Cage

“THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow promises should be toned down before the public turns away in disgust. And if that should happen, our civilization might not survive.”

Ifs Knows Should Might Happens Science Turns Know How Tomorrow Promise Civilization Computer Mathematics Instruments Faster Paradise Disgusting Pretension

Book:Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy

Source: Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy

“Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time?" If from one day to the next someone promises: "Tomorrow I will give up smoking", does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?”

Ifs Giving Writing Doe Different Science Next Tomorrow Promise One Day Giving Up Mathematics Series Smoking Giving Up Smoking

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.”

Ifs Knows Looks Country Problem Government Happens Causes Promise Finance Canada Banking Greece Mortgage Recessions Canadian Government

Author:Stephen Harper

“I figured if I could get really good people who were going to be able to have a big impact in the world over the next decade to come together once a year for ten years and actually sign a pledge to take action themselves, if we did that every year for ten years we could do a lot of good in the world. That's the difference between my meeting and any other. If you don't want to promise to do something, don't come to my meeting, stay home.”

People Ifs World Want Years Home Bigs Able Action Together Next Differences Promise Ten Impact Meetings Decades If I Could Good People Get Real Pledge Good In The World Big Impact

Author:William J. Clinton

“If I put my mind to it, and I put the work in, I have no doubt I could do it (pitch 4-5 additional years), but I made a promise to the people who've supported me for so many years. It's time to give back to my family.”

People Ifs Giving Years Mind Made Doubt Promise My Family No Doubt Giving Back

Author:Roger Clemens

“I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and again because of its infinite promise. Justice can triumph, wrongs can be righted, and pain can be alleviated, if the right fix is found. The optimistic illusion that one can change the world is difficult to resist, especially when from time to time that illusion is sustained by even a hint of reality. Change does happen in the political process.”

“Is America becoming decadent? Do we no longer regard our promises and pledges as sacred? ... We promised to make peace with Germany only in conjunction with the Allies; but we brought forward a separate peace, demanding for ourselves all the advantages of the Treaty of Versailles but rejecting all the responsibilities embodied in the Treaty. It was America's President who induced Europe to form a League of Nations; and then America was the first country that refused to joint it.... If these are not the symptoms of national decadency, what are they?”

“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.”

Ifs Inspirational Mean Done Religious Responsibility Accepting Too Much Son Promise Equal All Things Victim Outcomes Villain Hung Offspring Being Done Recoil

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.”

“Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.”

Ifs Would Be Promise Future Threat Another Life

Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.”

Ifs Men Courses Promise Vow Inconsistency

Book:Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections

Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections

“If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.”

Ifs Wells Looks Past Hope Bears Promise Shadow Hopefully Brighter

Book:A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

Source: A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

“We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.”

Ifs Men World Young Dies Loses Youth Promise Accounts Crowds Debt Young Man New World Die Young

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“I believe that Christians believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works. And we believe that if you're saved, Jesus becomes your savior. He makes a promise to you. You can trust his promises. You can bank on that word.”

Ifs Believe Christian Jesus I Believe Christ Grace Promise Jesus Christ Salvation Saved Savior Faith In Jesus

Author:Robert H. Schuller

“Imagine if you would, what would happen to your sorrows and fears if God Himself, the maker of heaven and earth, the Father of our Lord, the sovereign One, were to come to you, wrap you in His almighty arms and say to you, 'I love you with a perfect love, exactly as I love My Son. I will never stop loving you, no matter what. I am completely, utterly for you. I promise, on My own life, that I will do you good every day of your life. And because I control all things, that means My good is all you will ever experience from this time forward.'”

“If we're going to prevent people from being susceptible to the false promises of extremism, then the international community has to offer something better and the United States intends to do its part.”

People Ifs States Community United United States Promise Offers International Extremism Something Better Susceptible International Community False Promises

Author:Barack Obama

“My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a despair rooted in the fear that love did not exist, could not be found. And even if it were lurking somewhere, I might never know it in my lifetime. It had become hard for me to continue to believe in love's promise when everywhere I turned the enchantment of power of the terror of fear overshadowed the will to love.”

Ifs Knows Years Believe Important Hard Might Found Grief Sadness Promise Despair Lifetime Terror Heavy Companion Rooted Parting Enchantment Lurking Believe In Love

Author:Bell Hooks

“I don't know your story or your dreams or the things that steal your sleep, but I know they matter. I hope you story is rich with characters, rich with friends and conversation. I hope you know some people who carry you, and I hope you have the honor of carrying them. I hope that there's beauty in your memories, and I hope it doesn't haunt you. And if it does, then I hope there is someone who will walk you through the night and remind you of the promise of the sunrise, that beauty keeps coming, that there are futures worth waiting and fighting for, and that you were made to dream.”

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Author:Jamie Tworkowski

“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.”

Ifs Knows Humans Real States Facts Existence Promise Mortals Transcendental Being Famous Looking For Love

Author:George Hickenlooper

“I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.”

Ifs Giving Wells Doe Joy Circumstances Promise Reminding Peace And Joy

Author:Patricia Heaton

“Of one thing the executive may be sure: that the majority want more of the good things of life, and if they can get them without undue personal effort, so much the better. So the executive naturally tends to promise material gain, contingent of course on his remaining in power. The impetus to personal rule is obvious.”

Ifs Want May Courses Effort One Thing Materials Promise Gains Majority Good Things Obvious Executives Presidency Impetus

Author:Felix Morley

“I teach and believe that God wants his people to be blessed. If we give and we are a blessing to other people, that God promises in his word that he will take care of us. Actually, says he'll open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing so great that we can't contain it.”

People Ifs Want Giving Believe Care Heaven Teach Promise Blessing Window Blessed Take Care Being Blessed Blessing To Others God Promises

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people.”

“When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.”

Ifs Wells Pain Suffering Faith Strong Christ Religious Promise Standing Strikes Confirmation Pain And Suffering

Author:John Calvin

“Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.”

Ifs Art Color Painting Promise Subtle Sculpture

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“While we fight poverty in the Gulf, we also have to fight poverty across America. We should begin by returning to a promise once kept and now broken: If you work full-time, you shouldn't have to raise your children in poverty.”

Ifs Should Children America Fighting Poverty Broken Promise Our Children Raises Your Children

Author:John Edward

“John Kerry and the other Democratic leaders are on the wrong side of history, as they were during the Reagan presidency. If they had won the day, and Reagan had failed, the Soviet Union would still exist, as would all the harm and suffering it unleashed, and American security would be far weaker as a result. And if they win this election thanks to a promise to undo the Reagan-Bush Doctrine, those cheering loudest will be the most evil-loving among us.”

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