It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric Hoffer

It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
William Bennett

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
Alexandre Dumas

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.
Paul Tsongas

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.
Thomas Goodwin

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
Karl Barth

Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.
Anthony Hitt

Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.
William Weld

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
Jan Schakowsky

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Leo Buscaglia

Love is a promise delivered already broken.
Steve Martin

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.
John Ralston Saul

More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam.
Raul Grijalva

My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
Ricardo Lagos

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.
Richard M. Nixon

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.
Richard Le Gallienne

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.
Neil Jordan

Never promise more than you can perform.
Publilius Syrus

New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.
Daniel Akaka