Quotes About Promise

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

Frica de reac?ia în întârziere a destinului devine mai nefast? decât chiar confirmarea presim?irilor. Nenorocirea stabilizeaz?, cel pu?in, pentru o vreme, balan?a. Promite un armisti?iu.

An alcoholic promising not to drink again is roughly like anyone promising never to fart again

The dead will be resurrected.

The historical manifestations of the covenant of redemption can be categorized according to their specific emphases: Adam: the covenant of commencement Noah: the covenant of preservation Abraham: the covenant of promise Moses: the covenant of law David: the covenant of the kingdom Christ the covenant of consummation.

Law under Moses never was intended to function apart from promise.

I do what I can,' I said. 'When I can do more, I will. You know that.

Daddy's the only man I know," he said softly, "who cares as much about giving his word to a black as to a white.

Reading these tales is like looking at a photograph of a child whom you only knew as an adult. In her eyes you can see the woman that you came to know much later—a face, not yet fully formed, that contains the promise of something that is now a part of you: the welcomed surprise of recognition in innocent eyes.

Its promise is of hard work and brand-new possibilities, problems, challenges, and changes.

Ser uno mismo es, siempre, llegar a ser ese otro que somos y que llevamos escondido en nuestro interior, más que nada como promesa o posibilidad de ser.

The flight attendants, beautiful as angels, check to make sure we're fit to travel, and then, with a benevolent motion of the hand, permit us to plunge on into the soft, carpet-lined curves of the tunnel that will lead us aboard our plane and onto a chilly aerial road to new worlds. That smile of theirs hold - or so it strikes us - a kind of promise that perhaps we will be born anew now, this time in the right time and the right place.

He also gave her the name of his illness, but in Polish, so she had no idea what it was, because she just didn't know the Polish name for it. "Do you remember our promise?" he wrote.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

O Spider Lily That grows on the mountain Called Waiting, Is there someone you also Promised to meet this autumn?

The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.

Neither secular progress nor secular progressives have brought the West where they once promised. Nor can they.

I present a reconciliation initiative... whose essence is our commitment to stop operations against all (European) countries if they promise not to be aggressive towards Muslims or interfere in their affairs.

Never turn your back against what you swore to protect with your life.

Do I really dare to let God be to me all that He says He will be?

Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.' The promise of entering his rest still stands, so let us never give up. Let us, therefore, make every effort - spoudazo - make every effort to enter that rest.

I will never leave you"—not for any reason; not my sin, selfishness, stubbornness, nor waywardness. Have I really let God say to me that He will never leave me? If I have not truly heard this assurance of God, then let me listen again.

Take my hand, don't be afraid. I'm wanna prove every word I say.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.