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Quotes About Promise

in the morning -- 'When the world looks promising again despite what we know about it' -- ...
~ M. John Harrison
Let us remember that the Savior is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and there can be no greater promise than to know that if we are faithful and true, we will one day be safely encircled in the arms of His love (see D&C 6:20). He is always there to give encouragement, to forgive, and to rescue. Therefore, as we exercise faith and are diligent in keeping the commandments, we have nothing to fear from the journey.
~ M. Russell Ballard
Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
~ Mac Davis
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.
~ Unknown
Ricky I don't know why we don't get a drink ... sittin inside this place. Bobby I promised Chloe we'd come here Ricky She doesn't even know where the hell she is, Bob. She'd have more fun if we were at Bodners. She could play the triva game like she likes it, or the little racing game thing she does. Bobby She's a little girl, little girl's don't like to go to bars. Ricky We had fun, we went to bars when we were kids ... met all the different people, right ...remember Slimmy
~ Unknown
A second source of blurriness in Trump's vision is that it offers no incentive for friendship. If every nation is focused entirely on gaining an edge over every other, there can be no trust, no special relationships, no reward for helpfulness, and no penalty for cynicism—because cynicism is all we promise and all we expect.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
THE END OF THE SUPERPOWER RIVALRY WAS A MOMENT OF INCALCULABLE promise: the third make-or-break opportunity of the twentieth century.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
I promise you that for all our life together, I will seek worlds that we might never have encountered in our singularity and our solitude. I will shelter our family. I will share your tears. I will bind my happiness to yours. Our country is about to be born. Let us, too, have the chance to begin again.
~ Madeleine Thien
I did indeed say you could have lovers. But I never promised that I would not kill them.
~ Madeline Hunter
When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.
~ Madeline Miller
Name one hero who was happy." "You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward. "I can't." "I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret." "Tell me." I loved it when he was like this. "I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it." "Why me?" "Because you're the reason. Swear it." "I swear it
~ Madeline Miller
A surety rose in me, lodged in my throat. I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
~ Madeline Miller
He waits for you.
~ Madeline Miller
I come to say that you may go, and I will help you. But there must be conditions." Did he know how much those words cost me? I do not think he could. It is youth's gift not to feel its debts.
~ Madeline Miller
Because you're the reason. Swear it.
~ Madeline Miller
I can please you, I swear it. You will find none more loyal than me. I will do anything." I do think he loved me a little. For before I could say the thousand humiliating things in my heart, all the proofs of passion I had hoarded, the crawling devotions I would do, I felt his power come around me. And with that same flick he had used upon the cushions, he sent me back to my rooms.
~ Madeline Miller
Name one hero who was happy. You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward. He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret. I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it." "Why me?" "Because you're the reason. Swear it." "I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes. "I swear it," he echoed. We sat like that for a moment, hands touching. He grinned. "I feel like I could eat the world raw.
~ Madeline Miller
You cannot make that promise, I wanted to shout. You know nothing. But whose fault was that? I had kept the face of the world veiled from him. I had painted his history in bright, bold colors, and he had fallen in love with my art. And now it was too late to go back and change it. If I was so old, I should be wise. I should know better than to howl when the bird was already flown.
~ Madeline Miller
Name one hero who was happy. You can't.' 'I can't.' 'I know. They never let you be famous and happy. I'll tell you a secret.' 'Tell me.' 'I'm going to be the first. Swear it.' 'Why me?' 'Because you're the reason.
~ Madeline Miller
A name is a promissory note that it cannot itself keep.
~ John D. Caputo
Jesus, I give my hope to your true and certain return, and the renewal of all things.
~ John Eldredge
Worship is what we give our hearts away to in return for a promise of Life.
~ John Eldredge
Our hope is that all is well because of Jesus and that all will be well because of Him.
~ John Eldredge
Nothing is truly lost. This is going to come back to me; this will be in one of my treasure chests Jesus will restore to me.
~ John Eldredge