[first lines] Aretha Robinson: Always remember your promise to me. Never let nobody or nothing turn you into no cripple.
I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye, I will never forget - not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you, smile at me and make it true.
If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet.
The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.
I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey...
Walter Chalmers: I do not choose to have people accuse me of false promises for the sake of cheap sensationalism, or to be compromised by your lieutenant.
The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.
Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch.
At any moment we can demonstrate our faith by taking action that shows our belief in God's promises!
Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.
You have to be a student of the game to be successful, and it's promising when you can say that, with a world-record performance, I still have things to improve on!
I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered - the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation.
After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.
politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
People will promise you the moon, offer you the stars, but in the end, the only heavenly body you can truly count on is your on!
Technology - with all its promise and potential - has gotten so far beyond human control that its threatening the future of humankind.
