Quotes About Promise

Dad would often say "The next generation will follow anyone who will promise personal peace and affluence. If they are asked to make a choice between freedom and security they'll choose security. It will be the new fascism.

The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.

The best is yet to come.

We're all waiting for something.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

With the advance of refrigeration, I hope that along with the frozen foods someday we will have frozen conversation. A person will be able to keep a frozen promise indefinitely.

It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.

that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break his chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth be found!

When I think of solitude, I think of an anecdote from With the Door Open: My Experience by the late Danish religious philosopher Johannes Anker Larsen: "The most comprehensive formula for human culture which I know was given by the old peasant who, on his death bed, obtained from his son this one promise: to sit every day for half an hour alone in the best room.

El diamante llevado en la mano derecha neutraliza toda suerte de devenires». Por eso, en prueba de amor, los hombres afortunados tomaron la costumbre de regalar un diamante a sus prometidas para protegerlas de la plaga.

Delve in! The year's before us; Spring's promise fills the air. Descendants of Antæus, The brown earth's touch can free us, Renew us and restore us, From the hand o' carking care.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

My whole heart for my whole life.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

I'm on the road of least resistance I'd rather give up than give in to this So promise me only one thing, would you? Just don't ever make me promises No promises

rule is no peeking, I won't even consider it." "If we find a need for your special immunity, we'll make use of it," Grandpa promised. "If you find a need," Seth muttered. "I bet you won't be looking very hard. Say, Coulter, how did you know

I understand," Seth said. "I have nothing else to hope for." "Of course we're trying to get the Sands back," Seth soothed. "I can't say this mission will do that, but of course we hope to recover all of the artifacts. If we can get the Sands of Sanctity, I'll bring the artifact here and heal you. I promise. Okay?

understand," Seth said. "I have nothing else to hope for." "Of course we're trying to get the Sands back," Seth soothed. "I can't say this mission will do that, but of course we hope to recover all of the artifacts. If we can get the Sands of Sanctity, I'll bring the artifact here and heal you. I promise. Okay?

What did you promise?" Warren asked. "A real television of their own," Seth said. "I think they've earned it." "Does your grandfather know?" Warren asked. Seth shook his head. "Good luck with that," Warren said.

You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want." "Anything?" "Anything that doesn't require doing anything." "That's nothing, then." "Is it?" "Yes." "Well, that's something.

It will," Wit said, "but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: You will be warm again.

What you did tonight was clever," Wit said. "You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.

It's all right Wayne," Waxillium said softly. "I've made a promise. I told Lord Harms I'd return Steris to him. And I will. That is that." "Then I will remain and help," Marasi said. "That is that." "And I could really use some food," Wayne added. "Fat is fat.