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Quotes About Promise

You promised to consider going to college to study how to make videogames, like Mike Cruz is planning to do?
~ Ernest Cline
We'll do our best." "I know you will.
~ Ernest Cline
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
~ Ernest Istook
Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.
~ Ernest J. Gaines
As long as we have a youth that stands for all that is strong and manly our future is assured.
~ Ernst Junger
Mantenere: a dieci anni era il mio verbo preferito. Comportava la promessa di tenere per mano, mantenere.
~ Erri De Luca
Sometimes to take two steps in a row, one after the other, I need to make a contract with myself.
~ Erri De Luca
What can you do for us, Hylas?" The beautiful boy smiled, dazzling me. "Show me this hiding place of yours first, then I'll do as much for you as I can. We're all brothers on this voyage." Just what I needed: another brother.
~ Esther M. Friesner
And suddenly the driver remembered how he'd once promised himself that if he became God in the end, he'd be merciful and kind, and would listen to all His creatures. So when he saw Eddie from way up in his driver's seat, he simply couldn't go through with it, and in spite of all his ideology and his simple arithmetic, he opened the door, and Eddie got on
~ Etgar Keret
When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee—God can't break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
That's the fullness of God's salvation. It's not only deliverance from something but also deliverance to something. He not only delivers us from sin, but he also delivers us into a land of salvation that's flowing with milk and honey.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
The promise of the psalm—and both Hebrews and Christians have always read it this way—is not that we shall never stub our toes but that no injury, no illness, no accident, no distress will have evil power over us, that is, will be able to separate us from God's purposes in us.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Only where graves are is there resurrection.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
The central reality for Christians is the personal, unalterable, persevering commitment God makes to us. Perseverance is not the result of our determination, it is the result of God's faithfulness.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
worth it. "I promise.
~ Eugenia Riley
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
~ Euripides
The Lord said unto me, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I will give thee the nations for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
~ Eusebius
You'll never know what you've done for me," he said as they reached the gates of the level crossing. "If there's anything you want--" Clovis grinned. "Can I have Maia when she's grown up?" Finn's smile vanished in an instant. "No," he said.
~ Eva Ibbotson
Knowing it was her last night on the Arabella , Maia fought against sleep. She must remember it all--the lapping of the water against the side of the boat, the white moths, the fireflies… Finn, too, was awake. "When we're grown up I'll come back for you, I promise. No one can stop us then.
~ Eva Ibbotson
When we're grown up I'll come back for you, I promise. No one can stop us then.
~ Eva Ibbotson
There was a pause. Then: "And you've got me," said Finn. Maia lifted her head and smiled at him. For a moment she felt completely happy. Then she looked at Finn's hand resting on the tiller. "But you're going away." "Yes," he said. "That's true. I'm going away.
~ Eva Ibbotson
Clovis had been listening to Finn with a very worried face. "But that's a sort of curse. Maia shouldn't live in a house that's been cursed." "I know. But nobody has cursed Maia--nobody in the world would do that. And Furo and the others have promised to look after her. They absolutely promised." "And you're not going to tell Maia?" "No. Definitely not. She's got enough to put up with with those awful twins.
~ Eva Ibbotson
Nick, if I can have you, I don't want or need anything or anybody else in the world. Call it whatever you want. Just say yes.
~ Evangeline Anderson
He knows I'm afraid to trust him. He knows he scares me. And that knowledge hurt him, somehow. Hurt him deeply. "I know you fear me," Deep said, as though reading her mind. "But I swear I would never hurt you, little Kat. Please…will you let me bring you pleasure?" "Yes," she whispered, giving in at last.
~ Evangeline Anderson