Jane Addams Quotes

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Nothing keeps its promise.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

California is a tragic country … like every Promised Land.

Yesterday's promise, like tomorrow's never comes.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

I've seen the same promises -- more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade.

I can't compete with making promises you can't keep.

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come.

I never promised you a rose garden.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools.

Indians have heard fine words and promises long enough. They are right in asking for deeds.

For years we have been giving their political leadership the benefit of the doubt, and now only doubt remains.

The expectation that 'Trump as president' will be starkly different from 'Trump as candidate' is a false hope at best.

Most people imagine that resolving particular problems will make them happy. If only one had more money, or love, or success, then life would feel manageable. It can be devastating to realize the falseness of such tempered optimism.

If you add up all the promises any politicians makes, the math doesn't work.