Quotes About Promise

Never promise to do the possible. Anyone could do the possible. You should promise to do the impossible, because sometimes the impossible was possible, if you could find the right way, and at least you could often extend the limits of the possible. And if you failed, well, it had been impossible.

Here's what I suggest, he said. You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.

Where's the sense in promising to achive the achievable?

I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should

A witch relied too much on words ever to go back on them.

But... it's a nice day today, the birds is singing, there's stuff like... kittens and stuff, and the sun is shining off the snow, bringin' the promise of spring to come, with flowers, and fresh grass, and more kittens and hot summer days an' the gentle kiss of the rain and wonderful clean things which you won't ever see if you don't give us what's in that drawer 'cos you'll burn like a torch you double-dealing twisty dried-up cheating son of a bitch!

That's how it goes. Meetings in rooms. A little diplomacy, a little give and take, a promise here, an understanding there. That's how real revolutions happen.

At the end of the world is a great big mountain of granite rock a mile high,' she said. 'And every year, a tiny bird flies all the way to the rock and wipes its beak on it. Well, when the little bird has worn the mountain down to the size of a grain of sand . . . that's the day I'll marry you, Rob Anybody Feegle!

They'd saved the city with gold more easily, at that point, than any hero could have managed with steel. But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever—provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as Finance.

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture.

This is what we can promise the future: a legacy of care. That we will be good stewards and not take too much or give back too little, that we will recognize wild nature for what it is, in all its magnificent and complex history - an unfathomable wealth that should be consciously saved, not ruthlessly spent. Privilege is what we inherit by our status as Homo sapiens living on this planet.

Is pain a promise? I was schooled in pain, And found out all I could of all desire;

You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.

When I get married it will be for keeps.

I've got a contract that keeps me around a few more years.

Opportunity must be underpinned by security - and Labour must offer that security.

Steve Jobs's first story involved connecting dots, and it began with a most unusual promise.

and stunningly mean-spirited. Some parts of his life sounded like a fairy tale right out of the movies: There was a promise made when he was a baby, romances, remarkable rebounds, and riches almost too big to be believed. Other parts were so messy and ugly, so very human, that they would never be considered family entertainment.

One day, you will say it to me again. You will be sober. And you will mean it.

I'm thinking of acquiring you from him." I caught Elise's fist, because she appeared to have the same reaction to Marlowe that I did. And while I'd love another go at him, especially with help, we were running low on time. "Later," I told her. She nodded. From her expression, it was a promise

I told you I wouldn't forget you...and as I'm sure you remember, the black rose is you.

It was a fine country, or would be, different from any she had known. But if it was the promised land, it was not because of the trees or climate, but because, just getting here, they'd found something new inside themselves.

the morning with the whole day waiting, full of promise, the night of quiet, of no expectations, of rest. And the certainty of home, the one I live in, and the one that lives in me.

I have your word?" "You trust my word?" "You're an idealistic fool. Of course.