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Quotes About Promise

Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!
~ Victor Hugo
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
~ Victor Hugo
If we get out of this, will you be my girl?
~ Neal Stephenson
If you see your decision to express your love in a particular way with only one particular other as a sacred promise, never to be broken, the day may come when you will experience that promise as an obligation—and you will resent it. Yet if you see this decision not as a promise, made only once, but as a free choice, made over and over, that day of resentment will never come.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
You will know that you have found the path to God when you see these signs. For I promise that no one who truly seeks God shall any longer do these things. It would be impossible to continue such behaviors.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I want my brain to slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise.
~ Ned Vizzini
Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.
~ Ned Vizzini
Don't do anything stupid, okay? I won't, I tell her, and that's not a lie. What I'm doing makes a lot of sense.
~ Ned Vizzini
I want there to be a Shift so bad. I want to feel my brain slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, and witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise, and I HAD incredible promise, and I spoke up in class because I was excited and smart about the world. I was the Shift so bad. I'm waiting for the phrase that will invoke it. It'll be like a miracle within my life.
~ Ned Vizzini
Y]ou're young. Young takes care of everything.
~ Neil Simon
Eternal life is not something you get when you physically die; it is something you get the moment you are born again! "He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life" (1 John 5:12). Contrary to what Satan would like you to believe, he can't ever take away your eternal life because he can't take Jesus away from you, who promised never to leave you or forsake you (Hebrews 13:5).
~ Neil T. Anderson
God does not promise to make a bad thing good, nor has He assured us that He will keep us from bad things. He has promised us that in all things-even those that are terrible-good can come out of it for all those who love Him.
~ Neil T. Anderson
Actually, she'd made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.
~ Nelson DeMille
She told me, 'I said for better or worse, Dick, but I never said for lunch.
~ Nelson DeMille
We left a bicycle at the station this morning. If you do the right thing by me I won't be able to ride it, but it's there, anyway.
~ Nevil Shute Norway
But the foundation on which all of this rested was the underlying credibility of a borrower's promise to repay. (It is no coincidence that in English the root of 'credit' is credo, the Latin for 'I believe
~ Niall Ferguson
The Bolsheviks promised their supporters 'Peace, Bread and Power to the Soviets'. Peace turned out to mean abject capitulation.
~ Niall Ferguson
MÄ…dry pan nie mo?e ani nie powinien dotrzymywa? wiary, je?eli takie dotrzymywanie przynosi mu szkodÄ™ i gdy znikn??y jego przyczyny, które spowodowaÅ'y jego przyrzeczenie. Zapewne gdyby wszyscy ludzie byli dobrzy, ten przepis nie byÅ'by dobry, lecz poniewa? sÄ… oni nikczemni i nie dotrzymywaliby tobie wiary, wiÄ™c ty tak?e nie jesteÅ› zobowiÄ…zany im jej dotrzymywa?.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
I'm going to marry you one day, you know. Is that a promise? If you want it to be.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I'd love to, she finally said,on one condition. I steadied myself, hoping it wasn't something too awful. Yes? You have to promise that you won't fall in love with me. I knew she was kidding me by the way she laughed, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Sometimes, I had to admit, Jamie had a pretty good sense of humor. I smiled and gave her my word.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday
~ Nicholas Sparks
We'd met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.
~ Nicholas Sparks
She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would listen intently and then promise to make it all come true. And the way he said it made her believe him, and she knew how much he meant to her.
~ Nicholas Sparks