Quotes About Promise

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it's a decision, it's a judgement, it's a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. - Fromm

The space of our lack is also the space of possibility. As we yearn, we make ourselves ready to receive the love that is coming to us, as gift, as promise, as earthly paradise.

My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a despair rooted in the fear that love did not exist, could not be found. And even if it were lurking somewhere, I might never know it in my lifetime. It had become hard for me to continue to believe in love's promise when everywhere I turned the enchantment of power or the terror of fear overshadowed the will to love.

Cómo podía seguir creyendo en la promesa del amor cuando, dondequiera que mirase, la seducción del poder, el pánico y el miedo parecían más fuertes que la voluntad de amar?

And Billy, if it'll ease your mind any, I want you to know you've got a standing offer to come work for me when you're done with your military service. All you've got to do is say the word." Now there was a depressing thought, although Billy could see how it might come to that, assuming best-case scenario he made it home with all his limbs and faculties intact.

I promise to pass through a series of worlds with you," I remembered from her vows.

simplicity of choice, and promise of satisfactory results, in terms of psychology as well as arithmetic.

I put my hands over Saint Cuthbert's fingers and I could feel the big ruby ring under my own fingers, and I gave the jewel a twitch just to see whether the stone was loose and would come free, but it seemed well fixed in its setting. I swear to be your man, I said to the corpse, and to serve you faithfully. I tried to shift the ring again, but the dead fingers were stiff and the ruby did not move.

We live by oaths and we can die by them. To give an oath is to harness a life to a promise, and to break an oath is to tempt the punishment of the gods.

Tell Ragnall," I told him, "that the Saxons of Mercia are coming. Tell him that his dead will number in the thousands. Tell him that his own death is just days away. Tell him that promise comes from Uhtred of Bebbanburg.

Some oaths are made with love, and those we cannot break.

Till time ends and evermore, that

What is an oath? A promise to serve a lord, but to Christians there is always a higher allegiance.

our oaths.' He advanced down the path

If a man breaks an oath he has no honour

They had marched all the soldiers' miles together, and now their ways parted. They would promise reunion, but such promises were so rarely kept.

You told these bastards they had till New Year's Day?' 'Yes, sir.' 'Then break your word, Major. Go and kill them at Christmas instead.' 'Yes, sir.

Me! I'm your pagan, lord,' I said, 'what do I care about sin?' 'Then care for my children,' he said. 'I will, lord King,' I promised.

Save yourself for my sake. And I will go with you to the end of the world.

Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill?

Esa tristeza, ¿no será la tristeza pura? ¿Es eso lo que nos sobreviene cuando, al mirar atrás, los recuerdos hermosos se nos vuelven quebradizos, al ver que aquella felicidad no se alimentaba sólo de la situación del momento, sino de una promesa que no se cumplió?

she certainly didn't nourish herself on promises, but was rooted in the here and now.

Elizabeth Tudor weakly squeezed Valentina's fingers. She said, "Tell that woman I shall be waiting for her." Then she closed her eyes and slept again.

Even when you are old, I will be the same. Even when your hair has turned gray, I will take care of you. I made you and will take care of you. I will carry you and save you. Isaiah 46:4, NCV