“No amount of promises can guarantee love”

“Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.”

“The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.”

“Nobody can credibly promise to bring the old jobs back; what you can promise — and Mrs. Clinton did — are things like guaranteed health care and higher minimum wages. But working-class whites overwhelmingly voted for politicians who promise to destroy those gains.”

“What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening—all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.”

“No amount of legislation can guarantee lasting peace and stability if the people it is supposed to serve are not spiritually and emotionally prepared to live by them (moral values) and where necessary defend them with their lives when it is breached.”

“From the male perspective, when commitment is associated with diamonds and mortgages, promises of love can feel like promises of payment.”

“It's only God who can promise you unconditional love. And God's love, is the kind of love which doesn't expect to be loved.”

“Things feel like they'll be forever, but they aren't. Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed.”

“What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.”