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Quotes About Promise

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?
~ Confucius
When you make a promise consistent with what is right, you can keep your word. When you show respect consistent with good taste, you keep shame and disgrace at a distance. When he in whom you confide is one who does not fail his friends, you may trust him fully.
~ Confucius
Examine si ce que tu promets est juste et possible, car la promesse est une dette.
~ Confucius
face Lady Schrapnell. And I promised I'd help
~ Connie Willis
I promise you calm seas,' Ã¢â'¬Â Sir Godfrey called, and raised his hands in benediction, " Ã¢â'¬Ëœauspicious gales, and sail so expeditious that shall catch your royal fleet far off.' 
~ Connie Willis
Jesucristo dijo: «En la casa de mi padre hay muchas mansiones».
~ Conny Méndez
I will do what I promised. He whispered. No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.
~ Cormac McCarthy
In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and then poured his own cup with hot water and sat blowing at the rim. You promised not to do that, the boy said. What? You know what, Papa. He poured the hot water back into the pan and took the boy's cup and poured some of the cocoa into his own and then handed it back. I have to watch you all the time, the boy said.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep.
~ Cormac McCarthy
And I have to say that the only thing I can think is that there was some sort of promise in his heart. And I dont have no intentions of carvin a stone water trough. But I would like to be able to make that kind of promise.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I will do what I promised, he whispered. No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Imi aduc aminte cind s-a pensionat tata si mama i-a spus: "Am zis ca la bine si la rau, dar n-am zis nimic despre prinz.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Non voglio fare nessuna promessa, disse. È così che si finisce per farsi male
~ Cormac McCarthy
My job is to take care of you. I was appointed to do that by God. I will kill anyone who touches you. Do you understand?
~ Cormac McCarthy
He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said, if he's not the word of God, God never spoke.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Todo va a ir bien, ¿verdad, papá? Sí. Todo irá bien. Y no nos va a pasar nada malo. Desde luego que no. Porque nosotros llevamos el fuego. Así es. Porque llevamos el fuego.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Boyd aint goin nowhere. If I am he is. Boyd's a juvenile. They aint goin to turn him over to you. Hell. You're a juvenile yourself. I aint askin.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Bunu yapmayaca??na söz vermiÅŸtin, dedi oÄŸlan. Neyi? Biliyorsun iÅŸte, baba. S?cak suyu yeniden kaba boÅŸaltt?, kendininkine de biraz kakao koydu, sonra geri verdi. Gözümün hep üstünde olmas? gerekiyor, dedi oÄŸlan. Biliyorum. Küçük sözlerden dönersen büyük sözlerden de dönersin. Öyle demiÅŸtin. Biliyorum. DönmeyeceÄŸim ama.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The world's truth constitutes a vision so terrifying as to beggar the prophecies of the bleakest seer who ever walked it. Once you accept that then the idea that all of this will one day be ground to powder and blown into the void becomes not a prophecy but a promise.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me.... You'll be all right.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull away, he took her face between his hands and kissed her again, on her forehead, on her nose, on her mouth once more. You will come, won't you? Promisse! he whispered.
~ Cornelia Funke
The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.
~ Cornelia Funke
He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. I'll save him, Meggie! he wispered in her ear. I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!
~ Cornelia Funke
The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of it all as a game. She had promised him the world. His flesh in the flesh of his enemies. And much too late had she realized what he had sown in her. Love. Worst of all poisons.
~ Cornelia Funke