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Quotes About Promise

Where you are,there I'll be.Make up your mind to it.You may not love me now bt you will.I'll see to it
~ Iris Johansen
Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
~ Isaac Newton
When I can read my title clearTo mansions in the skies,I'll bid farewell to every fear,And wipe my weeping eyes.
~ Isaac Watts
Comfort ye, my people speak ye peace, thus saith our God. Comfort those who sit in darkness, mourning 'neath their sorrow's load. For the glory of the Lord now o'er earth is shed abroad and all flesh shall see the token that His word is never broken.
~ Unknown
I would not fail them.
~ Isobelle Carmody
My heart belongs to you,' He promised. 'Would you have loved me when I was a girl?' 'I have always loved you. Even before I met you I loved the idea of you.
~ Isobelle Carmody
The moment that counts most for me is the moment that precedes reading. At times a title is enough to kindle in me the desire for a book that perhaps does not exist. At times it is the incipit of the book, the first sentences... In other words: if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.
~ Italo Calvino
His memory, if he could patiently reconstruct the hours he passed, second by second, promised him boundless Edens.
~ Italo Calvino
His memory, if he could patiently reconstruct the hours he had passed, second by second, promised him boundless Edens.
~ Italo Calvino
Quando sarai stanco di star lì cambierai idea! - gli gridò. - Non cambierò mai idea, - fece mio fratello, dal ramo. - Ti farò vedere io, appena scendi! - - E io non scenderò più! - E mantenne la parola.
~ Italo Calvino
Il momento che più conta per me è quello che precede la lettura. Alle volte è il titolo che basta ad accendere in me il desiderio d'un libro che forse non esiste. Alle volte è l'incipit del libro, le prime frasi...Insomma: se a voi basta poco per mettere in moto l'immaginazione, a me basta ancor meno: la promessa della lettura.
~ Italo Calvino
Habits of a lifetime were a lot to be sawed through by a wedding ring. At the betrothal news Morrie had declared gallantly "I would not want to yield her to anyone but you, Oliver.
~ Ivan Doig
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.
~ Ivan Illich
Queerness offers the promise of failure as a way of life...but it is up to us whether we choose to make good on that promise in a way that makes a detour around the usual markers of accomplishment and satisfaction.
~ Unknown
You'll stay with me?' Until the very end,' said James.
~ J. K. Rowling
If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Lock her up"—as a prong of Make America Great Again—became a promise to weaponize the machinery of law to silence, threaten, and isolate women. In the end it didn't even matter whom the pronoun "her" referenced. For crowds who embraced it, it was a generalized promise that after centuries of women's diligent efforts at bending and shaping and coaxing the law into affording them equal protection and dignity, their gender itself could become a crime.
~ Dahlia Lithwick
Do you promise to help me pack up my apartment and get all my stuff? I have a lot of stuff. A lot. Shoes and purses and clothes and nail polish. I have way more purses than you brought and at least a gatrillion dresses. I can't live without them-' 'I promise to haul your shit around.
~ Unknown
can't remember the third! "In Defense of Rash Vows" was so appropriate. Susan and I had exchanged our marriage vows less than five months before. Chesterton wrote: "The man who makes a vow makes an appointment with himself at some distant time or place. The danger of it is that he may not keep the appointment.
~ Dale Ahlquist
did let them live. I even made the commander of the garrison at San Luis Potosi promise that he would give the bandidos a fair trial before he hangs them." Caleb's fists clenched white, remembering the words of a Jewish grocer he'd once known in Ohio. The old Jew told him a strange story handed down by his ancestors about when the Red Sea swallowed the Egyptian army.
~ Unknown
Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity." (Dallas Willard in Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning)
~ Dallas Willard
We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
~ Dan Hawkins
Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
~ Dan Lipinski
Henry Ford said, "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."3
~ Dan Miller