Quotes About Promise

Well, don´t cry about it, mother,´ said I, for the tears were gushing from her eyes, ´there, let that kiss efface the one I gave Eliza; don´t abuse her any more, and set your mind at rest; for I´ll promise never to - that is, I´ll promise to - to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of´.

No; my heart tells me it is not. I might have thought so once, but now, I say, give me the girl I love, and I will swear eternal constancy to her and her alone, through summer and winter, through youth and age, and life and death! if age and death must come.

Dussel promised her the moon, but, as usual, we haven't seen so much as a beam.

Dussel promised her the moon, but, as usual, we haven't seen so much as a beam.

If you were mine, I'd never leave you, Prudence. I couldn't.

being sober delivered almost everything drinking promised.

I want you to promise we'll see each other again, you'll send a letter. Promise we'll be lost together in our forest, pale birches of our legs. I hear your voice now—I know, everyone knows promises come from fear. People don't live past each other, you're always here with me. Sometimes I pretend you're in the other room until it rains… and then this is the letter I always write...

The people to be saved stretched without end into the future.

It was the horror of this world that a thousand evils were visited on those who were blameless and no one was ever punished, and side by side with the greatest promise was nothing but misery and want. Children mutilated to make a choir of seraphim, their song a cry to heaven that heaven did not hear.

Such vows . . . strike one with a sort of horror at what happened afterwards.

Passing on information to a friend was no breach of promise of secrecy . . . because it was no more than telling it to oneself.

Anne declared that if Sarah abandoned her, I swear to you I would shut myself up and never see a creature.

And what if you don't come? I will. No matter what happens. I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way,' she murmured.

I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way

Leave her alone, Killoran. I promised her you meant no ill will. And did she believe you? Not for a moment. Killoran looked back at her. Wise girl, he murmured. But for now, she's safe. I promise to keep my marauding hands off her fair young body. For the time being.

No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

But I'll do anything in my power to stop them from taking you away." She took a shuddering breath, then let her eyes fall closed. "Promise?" "Anything. As you said in Tokyo, we're meant to be together.

Do you promise? He demanded again. I can't let you go, Alek. She said softly. You...what?

Marketing is the name we use to describe the promise a company makes, the story it tells, the authentic way it delivers on that promise.

Your tactics can make a difference, but your strategy—your commitment to a way of being and a story to be told and a promise to be made—can change everything.

We hesitate to make a promise like "the show will be on at 11:30," because we're not sure we can meet the deadline and make it happen in a way that allows us to control the outcome.

The key piece of leverage was this promise: follow these instructions and you don't have to think. Do your job and you don't have to be responsible for decisions. Most of all, you don't have to bring your genius to work.

We were, fair queen, / Two lads that thought there was no more behind / But such a day to-morrow as to-day, / And to be boy eternal.