Quotes About Promise

Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?

When we grew up, Australia was the land of opportunity; it really was.

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

So today I say, the outlook in Georgia has never been brighter.

there had been offered to the Jews a precious reassurance:

I like marriage. The idea.

Good-bye isn't forever.

Cuando usted fija una meta, escríbala y entonces sera como hacer una promesa a si mismo.

The fountain of Bethesda will flow again. And I told him I would personally take him there to bathe. We will all bathe ourselves clean.

I smile sadly, in light of what came next to think that I told her If you can just hang on, things are bound to improve she made me a liar, too-- the woman who dug the hole I've been trying to write myself out of ever since

And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws. -Exodus 20:6

Neither one of the two friends felt any great need of talking. As yet. They had time; summer lay before them, long and full of promises.

A contract," Katri went on earnestly. "A contract is really much more remarkable than you might think. It doesn't just bind. I've noticed that for some people it's a relief to live with a contract. It frees them from indecision and confusion, they no longer have to choose. Both sides have agreed to share and assume responsibilities. It is, or ought to be, a deliberate promise where people have at least tried to be fair.

Repeat after me,' said Moomintroll, "may the ground swallow me up may old hags rattle my dry bones, and may I never more eat ice-cream if I don't guard this secret with my life." Go on now.

I grunnen hadde ingen av dem lyst til å snakke. Ennå. De hadde god tid, sommeren lå lang og full av løfter foran dem.

seed is a promise, Corinne, a guarantee. Plant it and watch it grow.

She was a vision . . . and she was his. She smiled at him and William felt the pain of his war wounds pass away. There was an entire future in that smile—a world of hope and the promise of unspeakable joy.

We can't remake the past, but God holds our future in His hand, and there's always a place to begin anew.

Under the Re-Invention Paradigm, instead of your word fitting the world, you design your promise as a "world-to-word" fit. You have the world lined up, to fit the promise you have made.

Replace "predicting the future" (by analyzing what's possible, benchmarking, setting objectives or goals, or making feasible promises) with "declaring the future" and making bold promises to fulfill it.

Is this love the trouble you promised?

Not the flame, but what it promised, Surrender. To be quenched of danger.

It is God's jealous love that both unnerves us and draws us to Him. His relentless pursuit, His fierce hatred of any rival, and His incomprehensible willingness to anguish on our behalf captures our heart for His love. His jealousy is our shield; it is our promise of eternal protection and passionate exclusivity. it is our confidence that the divine Lover will win His bride.