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Quotes About Promise

Denial of Saint Peter. To say to Christ: 'I will never deny Thee' was to deny him already, for it was supposing the source of faithfulness to be in himself and not in grace.
~ Simone Weil
Christ toujours présent entre deux vrais amis. Réciproquement la parole « Si deux ou trois.... » est la promesse de l'amitié humaine à ses amis.
~ Simone Weil
God's covenant is his sovereign, freely bestowed, unconditional promise: "I will be your God," which carries with it a multidimensional implication: therefore "you will be my people."36 By contrast, a contract would be in the form: "I will be your God if you will live as becomes my people.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
flight from familiar tedium to new tedium would have for a time the outer look and promise of adventure.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Morning always promises miracles.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Watson: When do we start? Holmes: You are not coming. Watson: Then you are not going. I give you my word of honour - and I never broke it in my life - that I will take a cab straight to the police station and give you away unless you let me share this adventure with you.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
You can understand,' said Holmes very suavely, 'that I extend to the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to you in yours.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
For I have promised to do the battle to the uttermost, by faith of my body, while me lasteth the life, and therefore I had liefer to die with honour than to live with shame ; and if it were possible for me to die an hundred times, I had liefer to die oft than yield me to thee; for though I lack weapon, I shall lack no worship, and if thou slay me weaponless that shall be thy shame.
~ Sir Thomas Malory
Og Sigurd som skjenket ravnen, Odins svane, blodig øl, mistet livet; landets herre ødela ham ved Oglo. Gullets øder, den uredde, livet lot i luende ild, da landkongene brøt sitt løfte, sveik i trygd Tys ætling.
~ Snorri Sturluson
Vertraue einem edlen Charakter mehr als einem Eid.
~ Solon
I'll find you. I will. We'll be together again.
~ Sophie Jordan
You have my word. If you return with me, you won't be harmed. I'd die first.
~ Sophie Jordan
You've gone back to the way you used to be before. The way you promised you'd never be again.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Becky, if I had to wait five years, then I would. Or eight -- or even ten. He pauses, and there's complete silence except for a tiny gust of wind, blowing confetti about the churchyard. But I hope that one day -- preferably rather sooner than that -- you'll do me the honor of marrying me?
~ Sophie Kinsella
Samantha, before you go Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â Iris takes hold of both my hands, her face filled with concern. "Sweetie Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I'm sure you're doing what's best for you. But just remember, you only get your youth once." She looks at my hand, smooth against hers. "You only get these precious years once." "I'll remember." I bite my lip. "I promise." "Good." She pats my hand. "Off you go.
~ Sophie Kinsella
No man, my lord, should make a vow, for if He ever swears he will not do a thing.
~ Sophocles
you'll pay in tears, I promise you, for this, this witch-hunt.
~ Sophocles
Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
And once again we plighted our troth, And titter'd, caress'd, kiss'd so dearly.
~ Heinrich Heine
Promise me you'll look after yourself … stay out of trouble …' 'I always do, Mrs Weasley,' said Harry. 'I like a quiet life, you know me.
~ J. K. Rowling
Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
No matter what happens, you will never lose me, I am forever yours, Kitten, in this life or the next.
~ Jeaniene Frost
Be my wife, all my life.
~ Jodi Thomas
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.
~ Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1