Quotes About Promise

they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before,' he said, nodding determinedly. 'She'll see.

There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.

Sommer ist nur das uneingelöste Versprechen des Frühling.

always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world. --- quoted by Evan Osnos to describe the rapidly urbanising China

held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see.

She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had.

Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring.

CAUSE AND EFFECT The branch exists only to bear the fruit The knowledge of which resides in the root Would a gardener plant and tend the vine Without the promise of the grape and wine? Before this truth let all your reason pause What you thought was effect, is but the cause.

The dream that promises us the impossible has already prevented us from achieving it, but the dream that promises us the possible interferes with real life and leaves it to life to provide a solution.

I sleep on my elbows propped painfully on the railing and feel a great promise in knowing nothing.

We are hollow inside and out, pariahs of anticipation and promise.

The country morning exists; the city morning promises. The former makes one live; the latter makes one think.

32 [151] Dawn in the countryside just exists; dawn in the city overflows with promise. One makes you live, the other makes you think. And, along with all the other great unfortunates, I've always believed it's better to think than to live.

Já duas vezes te disse Que nunca mais te diria O que te torno a dizer E fica para outro dia.

Listen here, Mr. Shiftlet, she said, sliding forward in her chair, you'd be getting a permanent house and a deep well and the most innocent girl in the world. You don't need no money. Lemme tell you something: there ain't any place in the world for a poor disabled friendless drifting man.

The disappointment, brokenness, suffering, and pain that characterize life in this present world is held in dynamic tension with the promise of future glory that is yet to come. In that Advent tension, the church lives its life.

Over and over again, I looked family members who had lost loved ones to police violence, I looked them right in the eye and told them, 'Don't worry. We will get justice for your family.'

Hold on to that. You have an autograph. I'm going to be famous some day.

We will build the wall faster and better if I'm elected.

I'm never going to be fat - never again. I'm going to make it easy on my pallbearers.

When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down.

I don't see the point in marriage: if you make a commitment, you make a commitment. Fidelity is important to me; it's about honouring that commitment.