As young people make diverse claims on the promise of a radical democracy, articulating what a fair and just world might be, they are increasingly met with forms of physical, ideological and structural violence.
One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.
One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.
I'll come back to you," I say. "I promise you, if it's the last thing I do, I'll come back to you. " Her face is buried in my neck. She nods. "I'll count the minutes until you do. " she says.
Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.
If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises.
Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.
I promise that this will be the last time you’ll see me. I won’t come back. I won’t put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I’d never existed.
Seriously, just buy the [expletive deleted] book. I promise you'll like it. Unless you're [expletive deleted].
Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.
You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married. " "I'm not getting rid of Pooh. " "See, there you go being antagonistic. Marriage means learning to compromise. " "I didn't say I wouldn't compromise. I promise to take the ribbon out of her topknot before you walk her.
The unmistakable lesson is that such is the myopic zealotry of environmentalists like Obama that they would implement policies virtually guaranteed to harm our economy significantly, even when they offer no promise of appreciable environmental benefits.
Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President [Barack] Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.
I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.
You know how I feel about you, Bluefur. I'd do my best to make you happy, I promise. And I'll love your kits as though they were my own.
Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.
Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
Don't let your fears become boxes that enclose you. Open them out, feel them and turn them into the greatest courage you are capable of. I promise you, nothing will go wrong. But if you live by your fears, everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong and you won't even have done the 'Funky Chicken'.
Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.