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Quotes About Promise

I really wanted a tennis dress. My parents told me that if I played, they would buy me one. I was like, 'Hey, I'll try it.'
~ Madison Keys
People have high expectations of me, and I want to fulfil them.
~ Diego Forlan
though I cannot promise to take you home, said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.
~ George MacDonald
The question is not at present, however, of removing mountains, a thing that will one day be simple to us, but of waking and rising from the dead now.
~ George MacDonald
Our God, we will trust thee. Shall we not find thee equal to our faith? One day, we shall laugh ourselves to scorn that we looked for so little from thee; for thy giving will not be limited by our hoping.
~ George MacDonald
For the future. For the unborn.
~ George Orwell
But of course we must never forget, Mrs. Pither, that there's a better world coming. This life is only a time of trial—just to strengthen us and teach us to be patient, so that we'll be ready for Heaven when the time comes.
~ George Orwell
And someone sitting to one side of him had said as he passed: "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
~ George Orwell
Ted, I swear to God, quothe he.
~ George Saunders
For until we are ended, "never" may not be truly said. jack "malarkey" fuller And love may yet be ours. gene "rascal" kane
~ George Saunders
There is a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.' - Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000
~ George W. Bush
The future will be better tomorrow
~ George W. Bush
The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born.
~ George W. Bush
Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you mean to cast me off for Another!
~ Georgette Heyer
I'm not talking nonsense, lass. I'd give you the whole of the moon if I could, and throw in the stars for good measure,' he said, taking her hand, and kissing it. 'You couldn't be content with less?
~ Georgette Heyer
may I have a workshop at Alver? For experiments? If I promise faithfully not to blow the house up? If you please, Cousin Alverstoke … ?
~ Georgette Heyer
_ ¿Y si me caso con vos, mi señor? ¿Me dejareis seguir mi camino? ¿No vendréis a mi lado si yo no lo deseo? ¿ No os enfadaréis conmigo ni seréis mi tiran o?Te lo juro _ dijo él. Ella se le acercó con la mirada llena de ternura maliciosa _ ¡Oh, mi amor, te conozco mejor de lo que te conoces a ti mismo!
~ Georgette Heyer
Lady, you called me a mocker, but for once I do not jest. Hear my solemn promise! I will make you an Englishwoman before a year is gone by. And so seal my bond.' He bent his handsome head quickly, and kissed her lips before she could stop him.
~ Georgette Heyer
See you day after tomorrow!
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
~ Valerie Jarrett
Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise.
~ Rush Limbaugh
My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
~ Ursula Burns
Crucially, the Energy Transition Act does not leave affected workers and neighbors behind. We look out for each other. With this law, we seal that promise.
~ Michelle Lujan Grisham
With more than half of the American workforce without private pension coverage, Social Security provides economic certainty within a system that is fair, equitable, and easy to understand. You work hard, pay into the system, and the federal government makes a promise to pay back your earned benefits when you retire. It's that simple.
~ Mike Quigley