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Quotes About Promise

But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.
~ Dinah Sheridan
Every time I left for the battlefield I promised this to myself; I must live to see you again. In order to protect you, I promised myself that I must win.
~ Gwanghaegun of Joseon
When I pressed Jesus to my heart, I said to Him: 'I will be a priest. I promise You!' ...Oh, what graces Our Lord gave me then! Yes, I believe my conversion at that time was sincere and perfect.
~ Peter Julian Eymard
Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.
~ Robert Jordan
Wedding song (reprise) But you and I, through burning plains, through darkness of the earth, affirm the world, its people, the heavens that gave them birth, the breath that passes between us, this new home where we stand, and all those things made larger by the vows between woman and man.
~ Margaret Weis
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
~ Margret Mitchell
Ma poi glielo aveva detto. Le aveva detto che era come prima, che l'amava ancora, che non avrebbe potuto mai smettere d'amarla, che l'avrebbe amata fino alla morte.
~ Marguerite Duras
He] was very ill-used by the Government about a place that was promised him and never given, after his supporting them against his conscience very honourably, and being greatly abused for it, which hurt him greatly, he having the name of a great patriot in the country before.
~ Maria Edgeworth
Where there is lack, God's abundance is on the way. Hold on. Have faith. It's coming.
~ Marianne Williamson
May I fly with angels and sing with angels and know the angels in myself and others Henceforth and forever as You have promised. Please hold my hand. Please take me home. Please move me forward. Thank You, Lord. Amen.
~ Marianne Williamson
He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required
~ Marilynne Robinson
That's what the family is for,' he said. 'Calvin says it is the Providence of God that we look after those nearest to us. So it is the will of God that we help our brothers, and it is equally the will of God that we accept their help and receive the blessing of it. As if it came from the Lord Himself. Which it does. So I want you boys to promise me that you will help each other.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I've shepherded a good many people through their lives, I've baptized babies by the hundred, and all that time I have felt as though a great part of life was closed to me. Your mother says I was like Abraham. But I had no old wife and no promise of a child. I was just getting by on books and baseball and fried-egg sandwiches.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Again, all any heart has ever said, and just as the word is said the moment is gone, so there is not even any sort of promise in it.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson
~ Word of honor!
The meeting would be safe as a wedding.
~ Mario Puzo
Don Corleone had promised his godson he would get the part and Don Corleone had never, to Hagen's knowledge, broken his word in such matters.
~ Mario Puzo
They should really tack that on to the marriage ceremony: 'Do you promise to love, honor, obey me, and also to kill me when I can no longer stand in a shower?
~ Marisha Pessl
The Key to Paradise was for poor people. Thousands of young kids, promised a better life, exploded on the minefields with their keys around their necks.
~ Marjane Satrapi
A month after it ended, President Johnson decided not to seek reelection, and Westmoreland would shortly thereafter be removed as its commander. Richard Nixon was elected president eight months later mendaciously promising not victory, but a secret plan to bring the war to an "honorable end.
~ Mark Bowden
The covenant language in the Bible is not cold, legal language, but relational language.
~ Mark Dever
I did know what it meant when you say you promise something. You have to say that you will never do something again and then you must never do it because that would make the promise a lie.
~ Mark Haddon
None of them were greatly interested in the election except as a national soap opera in which the closeness of the result was more exciting than the identity of the winner. Individually, they were passionate about GP fundholding, academy schools, asylum, but none of them trusted any party to keep a promise about any of these issues. Louisa struggled to believe that she could change herself, let alone the world.
~ Mark Haddon
HERE AT THE GOLDEN GATE IS THE ETERNAL RAINBOW THAT HE CONCEIVED AND SET TO FORM. A PROMISE INDEED THAT THE RACE OF MAN SHALL ENDURE INTO THE AGES. Like
~ Mark Helprin