Unfulfilled Obligations Quotes

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.

With my resignation, I... left unfulfilled commitments I made to many comrades in the fight, commitments I hold sacred. My service did not end as I would have wished.

Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.

Nobody must keep a commitment to do impossible things.

I felt terrible when I went to Roma because I hadn't fulfilled the expectations of the Florentines.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

I feel sick if I have to do something for the money. I can't breathe. I'm not proud of myself.

These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to.

My greatest regret is that my mother died before I could help her materially.

President Trump, whose businesses and now campaign have left a long trail of unpaid bills behind them, has never discriminated when it comes to stiffing people who work for him.

There's only one thing you can do in bankruptcy: break your word, break your deals. It allows you to say to the small businesses, who have been catering lunches for you, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.' It allows you to go to the workers and say, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.'

I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.

I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.

All the attention in the world won't do my dishes.

Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling is stronger than any intellectual insight they might have, that it is not a child's task or duty to satisfy his parents needs. No argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest periods, and from that they derive their intensity and obduracy.

It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.

All too often, I'm sorry to say, I relegated my family to the cracks and margins.

You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract. You can't do business with a firm who swears they'll do one thing one day and does just the opposite the next. You can't do business with a company who takes your goods on a cash basis and then pays you off in bum harmonicas.