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Quotes About Promise

I will never hurt you.
~ Cayla Kluver
...After hardship, God will bring ease.
~ Anonymous
When you make a commitment, you build trust. when you keep it, you build trust.
~ Moywaywa
He said he was going to fix everything and I believed him. But I believed him before and again some. And I guess I got lost in the resentment of disbelief.
~ Dominic Riccitello
I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him.
~ Patience Jonathan
You can depend upon this much-CAPITALISTIC AMERICA INSURES EVERY PERSON THE OPPORTUNITY TO RENDER USEFUL SERVICE, AND TO COLLECT RICHES IN PROPORTION TO THE VALUE OF THE SERVICE. The System denies no one this right, but it does not, and cannot promise SOMETHING FOR NOTHING, because the system, itself, is irrevocably controlled by the LAW OF ECONOMICS which neither recognizes nor tolerates for long, GETTING WITHOUT GIVING.
~ Napoleon Hill
Greenspan's actions were harmful, but even if he knew that, it would have taken a bit of heroic courage to justify inaction in a democracy where the incentive is to always promise a better outcome than the other guy, regardless of the actual, delayed cost.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In the United States they have the implicit, never mentioned, promise to go work for a bank at a later date with a sinecure offering, say $5 million a year, if they are seen favorably by the industry.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
commitment and signaling
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
She was able to believe in this because she needed to; and, believing, was her own true, promising friend once more.
~ Natalie Babbitt
He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish,-- that we are not doomed to creep on forever in the old bad way, but that, this very now, there are harbingers abroad of a golden era, to be accomplished in his own lifetime.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
In numerous ways Disney struck what may be the very fundament of entertainment: the promise of a perfect world that conforms to our wishes.
~ Neal Gabler
You have three hundred sixty-five days of immunity. And then, looking him in the eye, said, And I'll be seeing you on day three hundred sixty-six.
~ Neal Shusterman
I vow to become the change that might have been.
~ Neal Shusterman
I will be keeper of your secret, Talon told the silent grave of the forgotten inventor. I will be the one who remembers why we forget.
~ Neal Shusterman
I will always be there on the horizon,' I tell her. And with infinite sorrow, she says, 'I believe that. But sadly I am no longer looking out of that window.
~ Neal Shusterman
Be my son or my daughter for a year, and I will give you power over life and death.
~ Neal Shusterman
Me prometiste contener ese genio! -Te equivocas: tú me lo pediste, y yo me negué.
~ Neal Shusterman
Stick with me, CyFi had said, putting his fist in the air, and as God is my witness, you will never go hungry again. Then he added, That's from Gone with the Wind.
~ Neal Shusterman
De ahí que Stendhal, un espíritu impertinente, burlón, incluso odioso, se acercara más que muchos otros a la verdad al decir que «Lo bello no es sino la promesa de la felicidad». Sin duda esta definición sobrepasa su objetivo; somete lo bello al ideal infinitamente variable de la felicidad; despoja con excesiva ligereza lo bello de su carácter aristocrático; pero tiene el gran mérito de alejarse decididamente del error de los académicos.
~ Charles Baudelaire
There still might be a place for us somewhere.
~ Charles Bukowski
I remember when each 4th lot was vacant and overgrown, and the landlord only go this rent when you had it, and each day was clear and good and each moment was full of promise.
~ Charles Bukowski
When can I see you again?" "In 2 hours or tomorrow." I walked to the door. You walk like a poem," she said. "See you in 2 hours," I told her.
~ Charles Bukowski
The first thing I remember my grandmother saying was, "I will bury all of you!
~ Charles Bukowski