Quotes About Promise
I have saved this afternoon for you.
~ T.S. Eliot
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T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.
~ Tahir Shah
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Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.
~ Tamora Pierce
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I will tell the stork-man.
~ Tamora Pierce
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I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
~ Tamora Pierce
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She promised herself that from now on she would try to sit as close to Neal as possible. She could not kick someone eight chairs away.
~ Tamora Pierce
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Beka: 'Will you keep me here forever? My hands are sticky.' Dale: 'I'll lick the honey off
~ Tamora Pierce
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Whatever she was, he would love her until they died
~ Tamora Pierce
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Bardic oaths weren't made to Shkoder, they were just made.
~ Tanya Huff
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The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it's gone, I don't know where I am. When there's a strong scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all.
~ Tarjei Vesaas
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Lovnad i djupaste snøen frå Siss til Unn: Det lovar eg deg at eg ikkje vil tenke på noko anna enn deg. Tenke på alt eg veit om deg. Tenke på deg heime og på skolen, og på skolevegen. Tenke på deg heile dagen, og dersom eg vaknar om natta.
~ Tarjei Vesaas
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Golbuchiks? Golbuchiks are ashes, entrails, dung, stove smoke, clay, and they'll all return to clay. They're full of dirt, candle oil, droppings, dust. You, O Book, my pure, shining precious, my golden singing promise, my dream, a distant call— O tender specter, happy chance, Again I heed the ancient lore, Again with beauty rare in stance, You beckon from the distant shore!
~ Tatyana Tolstaya
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When God calls his children home, there's no death, no sting. There's only new life. Resurrection.
~ Ted Dekker
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She was twenty-three and single, still living on the streets in San Francisco, when Sylous first promised her true sight and a community that would follow her. They would find a place in the hills of Tennessee, hidden away for them alone. A terrible tribulation was coming to the world, he'd said, but he would protect them from that Fury if they followed him.
~ Ted Dekker
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In fact, there are many more Fury in Haven Valley than in most places. Sylous first opened your eyes to the same fear that's always existed in the whole world, then promised to hide it from you if you follow the law. He's a spirit of religion.
~ Ted Dekker
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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
~ Tennessee Williams
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He took her hands and brought them to his lips, gently kissing each one in turn. ''Then we shall begin right now'', he vowed. ''And tomorrow you shall be transformed''. ''Tonight I am transformed'', she wishpered. ''Tomorrow I shall disappear.
~ Julia Quinn
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Still, she had no reason to doubt her mother. She frowned, then asked, "Does it hurt?" Mrs. Smythe-Smith's expression grew serious. "I will not lie to you. It is not particularly comfortable, and it does hurt a great deal the first time. But after that it gets easier, I promise. I find it helps to keep one's mind occupied. I usually go over the household accounts.
~ Julia Quinn
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I'll talk to my mother," she promised. "If I'm sufficiently annoying, I'm sure I can get the engagement period cut in half." "It makes me wonder," he said. "As your future husband, should I be concerned by your use of the phrase if I'm sufficiently annoying?" "Not if you accede to all of my wishes." "A sentence that concerns me even more," he murmured.
~ Julia Quinn
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When he kissed her, he tasted the promise of redemption.
~ Julia Quinn
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Antes de conocerte, sólo estaba vivo a medias. De repente, «ahora» significa felicidad, alegría y una mujer a la que adoro. Pero ¿sabes una cosa?. «Ahora» no tiene comparación con mañana. Y mañana no podrá competir con el día siguiente. Tal y como me siento en este momento, mañana va a ser mucho mejor. ¡Ah! Daff, cada día voy a quererte más, te lo prometo. Cada día…" - Simon Bassett
~ Julia Quinn
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He took her hands and brought them to his lips, gently kissing each one in turn. "Then we shall begin right now", he vowed. "And tomorrow you shall be transformed". "Tonight I am transformed", she wishpered. "Tomorrow I shall disappear.
~ Julia Quinn
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But if you don't," Hyacinth continued, smiling shyly, "then I'd be much obliged if you'd wait for me.
~ Julia Quinn
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Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.
~ Julia Ward Howe
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