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Quotes About Promise

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.
~ Elizabeth Smart
Because in February the days were really getting longer and you could see it, if you really looked. You could see how at the end of each day the world seemed cracked open and the extra light made its way across the stark trees, and promised. It promised, that light, and what a thing that was.
~ Elizabeth Strout
At the end of the day, he said, "I will take care of you," his voice thick with emotion. She stood before him and nodded. He zipped her coat for her.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Up in Shirley Falls, spring was slower to arrive. Nights were cold, but the way the dawn light cracked open along the horizon, bringing a gentle moistness that lightly touched the skin, spoke of a full-throated summer to come, and it was painful, all the promise in the air.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living then, day after day. What you promise today must be renewed and redefined tomorrow and each day that stretches out before you.
~ Arthur Gordon
All right, I will. But I'll make you a little pledge." She asked, "What's that?" "If ever, someplace down the road, you and I differ on a matter of judgment that's important, you have my permission to remind me of this incident, and that your judgment was right and mine wrong.
~ Arthur Hailey
We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
~ Arthur Henderson
Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.
~ Arthur Miller
Come back, come back, dear friend, only friend, come back. I promise to be good.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Tu viendras, tu viendras, je t'aime ! Ce sera beau. Tu viendras, n'est-ce pas, et même... Elle - Et mon bureau ?
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Everything about God is great, vast, incomparable. He never forgets, never fails, never falters, never forfeits His word.
~ Arthur W. Pink
The covenant of grace could no more have been made by man, than he can form a bow in the clouds.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Genesis 15:5,6, the great requirement of the covenant—namely, faith—was then more fully made known.
~ Arthur W. Pink
And what is faith but the acceptance of heaven's gifts, or the trusting in the record wherein those gifts are promised.
~ Arthur W. Pink
But God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it" (1Co 10:13).
~ Arthur W. Pink
I just meant that dreams are sort of an opportunity. You can confront danger without actually being in jeopardy." "Oh," I said. Opportunity was a good thing, a chance, a promise--the gift of drowning every night and never being dead.
~ Aryn Kyle
Should I call you Grayson?" "For now." He placed his hands on her hips and moved in close. "After tonight we'll be a whole lot more than friends."
~ Aubrey Ross
If I get married, I want to be very married.
~ Audrey Hepburn
there's rainbow behind the rain
~ Aurora
One thing you can give and still keep is your word.
~ Author Unknown
We've all made selfish, bad decisions We've all tried dishing out the blame Convinced our selves of our own actions My problem is I'll never change In doubt, some good comes out I'll fold before it's time Can't promise you that it's my last time, yeah.
~ Avenged Sevenfold
Jehovah will smite Egypt, and by smiting heal: they will turn back to Jehovah, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them." (Isaiah 19:22.)
~ Avraham Gileadi
She promised herself she wouldn't do it even as she reached out, her fingers trembling, and adjusted the side mirror to look back.
~ B.J. Daniels
I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
~ Babe Ruth