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Quotes About Promise

My mother and I smoked a cigarette; she was trying to quit as I was trying to start. Therefore, we shared a cigarette between us- in fact, we'd promised never to smoke a whole one alone.
~ Unknown
there was always risk; always the promise of pain— But the promise of love was stronger.
~ John Jakes
The problem with marriage, we all know, is the endlessness of it. Plenty of things we do will have long-term repercussions, but in what other situation do you promise to do something for the rest of your life?
~ John Jeremiah Sullivan
Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
~ John Keats
The lead—like the title—should be a flashlight that shines down into the story. A lead is a promise. It promises that the piece of writing is going to be like this. If it is not going to be so, don't use the lead.
~ John McPhee
The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.
~ Joe Lieberman
Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment.
~ Henry Giroux
For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
~ Michelle Obama
Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
~ Isaiah
Want to assure people there is no need for pessimism going by the past bad experience; country has huge potential.
~ Narendra Modi
People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
~ William Shakespeare
Failed the bright promise of your early day?
~ Bill Vaughan
The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
There is no sickness problem. There is simply a problem of the believer's coming to know his inheritance in Christ.
~ E. W. Kenyon
Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ.
~ Philipp Melanchthon
There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
~ John Calvin
I believe in the rest of the story. I believe there's still ink in the pen.... and someday all that's hazy through a clouded glass will be clear at last.
~ Nichole Nordeman
No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Faith is taking God at His Word.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.
~ William Shakespeare
Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to do, and then to expect this of him.
~ Charles Spurgeon