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Quotes About Promise

caught in a Scarlett O'Hara loop of promising herself that she would think about it tomorrow.
~ Karin Slaughter
I promised my daughter I would introduce her to Detective Pikachu if she let me pee in privacy.
~ Karin Slaughter
We can talk about our dreams all night, Lisette. We can talk forever, for the rest of our lives, living one adventure after another, I promise. But not now, my darling Lisette. For now, all I can think of is the brilliance of yet another ancient Greek, Sophocles. He said, 'One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life-that word is love.' I love you, Lisette. You bring my life joy I've never known. Please, marry me.
~ Kasey Michaels
It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.
~ Nguyen Van Thieu
But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.
~ Philip Massinger
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
~ Ovid
I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
~ Tamora Pierce
The 'still, small voice' of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to my full stature and fulfill the promise that sleeps within my being.
~ Sam Keen
Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.
~ Voltaire
Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.
~ William Ralph Inge
I told God I'd be back in a second. Man it's so hard not to act reckless.
~ Kanye West
In days gone by, a man's word was his bond. Today, fortunately, we have glue.
~ Lev L. Spiro
I promised myself I would never be one of those people who complained about "Oh man, lots of people are interested in our movie and now I gotta talk about it."
~ Damon Lindelof
I am a man of my word… and that word is "unreliable.
~ Demetri Martin
Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.
~ Bruce Barton
John is a man of his word. And so am I.
~ Bruce Irvin
Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.
~ Helen Rowland
The Glory of Israel will not lie or repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.
~ Samuel
A promise unkept will take a man's mind.
~ Claire Vaye Watkins
America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.
~ Eric Hoffer
That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.
~ Alice Hoffman