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Quotes About Promise

Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite.
~ Michel Foucault
Religion for them [Iranians] was like a promise and guarantee of finding something that would radically change their subjectivity
~ Michel Foucault
Chase stretched. I'll give you the week. And he held up his pinky. Eric grimaced. He HATED this part. Shake on it, pinky shake, or we don't have a deal. You're an asshole, Eric told him. Pretty much. He waited until Eric did, in fact, lock pinkies with him.
~ Michelle Sagara West
God "will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 4:19). That's a promise you can rely on.
~ Michelle Singletary
I couldn't let her speak or I would never be able to keep my promise.)
~ Mickey Spillane
Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.
~ Milan Kundera
What is flirtation? One might say that it is behavior leading another to believe that sexual intimacy is possible, while preventing that possibility from becoming a certainty. In other words, flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.
~ Milan Kundera
Está pronta demais a prometer sem mostrar de maneira suficientemente clara que sua promessa não a obriga a nada.
~ Milan Kundera
La coquetería es una promesa de coito sin garantía.
~ Milan Kundera
What did she say?" Eve asked when they got into the car. "Here's love, she said, to hold until next we meet and I give you more.
~ Nora Roberts
The way I see it, how can you really say you'll love a person longer than love lasts?
~ Paula McLain
I promise to keep you happy, safe, and in love - for as long as my heart wakes; and as much as you soul takes.
~ Prashant Chopra
To foreswear romantic love forever. To never grow up, never get married. To be maiden eternally.
~ Rick Riordan
God's love entails a covenant commitment on the part of with us, and that covenant commitment means a promise to be with us and for us, and God's covenant is shaped toward our redemption.
~ Scot McKnight
I can still hear the words you whispered when you told me I can stay right here forever in your arms from Forever and for Always
~ Shania Twain
God does so love to make a man break a promise.
~ Simon R. Green
Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labour of love bordering on madness.
~ Steven Saylor
But once in a great while he remembered that he had felt pain, a terrible ache in his heart, and he swore he would never let himself feel love for a human again.
~ Susan Cooper
Sometimes you have to fulfill a promise in order to deserve the love you're given.
~ Tatjana Soli
His lips nuzzled her ear. "Whether you go or stay, I will love you until I die," he whispered.
~ Teresa Medeiros
And now 'tis man who dares assault the sky ... And as we come to claim our promised place, Aim only to replay the good you gave, And warm with human love the chill of space.
~ Thomas Goddard Bergin
Love is not a promissory note.
~ Todd May
Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o'Sunday
~ William Shakespeare
You promise me, he said. That you love him. Enough to marry him and make him happy.
~ Cassandra Clare