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Quotes About Promise

I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
For he fully intended to be with her in the future legally and sanctioned by the church in public, intimate and loving in private.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Why do you come here? I promised. I release you from your promise! It wasn't you I promised, the angel said quietly.
~ Elizabeth Knox
And unofficially?
~ Elizabeth Lowell
There should be friendship vows. Did you ever think that? When you get married, you promise all that stuff - in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer... But you do that when you're friends, too, don't you? The thick and thin stuff.
~ Elizabeth Noble
Emerson, do you mean it?' 'It is only your due, my dear Peabody. Spite and selfishness alone kept me from beginning on them long ago. You deserve pyramids, and pyramids you will have!
~ Elizabeth Peters
I warn. Give it to me. If you do, no harm will follow, I swear it.' As Emerson might have said, this was the wrong approach to take to me. (In fact, Emerson would have put it more emphatically, using terms like 'red flag to a bull.') I
~ Elizabeth Peters
dead ahead were two inviting glaciers which held the promise of ice to be melted into water.
~ Alfred Lansing
He promised to write a book later about the trip. He sold the rights to the motion pictures and still photographs that would be taken, and he agreed to give a long lecture series on his return. In all these arrangments, there was one basic assumption - that Shackleton would survive.
~ Alfred Lansing
But the dawn did come—at last.
~ Alfred Lansing
The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Cophetua sware a royal oath;"This beggar maid shall be my queen!"
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
One kiss, my bonny sweetheart; I'm after a prize tonight, But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light. Yet if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day, Then look for me by moonlight, Watch for me by moonlight, I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.
~ Alfred Noyes
Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.
~ Ali ibn-Abi-Talib
We're always looking for the full open leaf, the open warmth, the promise that we'll one day soon surely be able to lie back and have summer done to us; one day soon we'll be treated well by the world.
~ Ali Smith
birth me all over again burn me and the tree next summer's sun midwinter guarantee
~ Ali Smith
teasing is arousal without the promise of release!
~ Ali Vali
Sound like a promise that can never happen.
~ Alice Childress
Regret empties anticipation, flattens dreams, and suffocates hope, because regret is a form of self-punishment. Whereas hindsight helps us learn from the past, regret beats us up with the past. So for one entire day (or go for forty), I invite you to fast regret. Do not feed it. Do not give it space. Let it go: God's mercies are "new every morning" (Lamentations 3:23). And meditate on Jesus' glorious promise from Revelation 21:5: "I am making everything new!
~ Alicia Britt Chole
Alice, het spijt me. Ik kan je nu niet helpen. Ik ben niet almachtig, ik kan geen enkele vogel of welk beest dan ook oproepen dat het tegen zovelen kan opnemen. Maar ik blijf bij je, dat beloof ik. Tijdens deze proef, en bij alles wat daarna volgt. - Leo
~ Alison Baird
I can promise, however, that the scrying will not hurt you," Nelac continued. "And I will order a special feast afterward, just for you, to make up for it." Hem
~ Alison Croggon
I have all faith in you. I will look to your coming when spring walks in the land.
~ Alison Croggon
Ümit asla boÅŸuna deÄŸildir, ama sonucun ne olaca??na dair garantiyi yaln?zca bir yalanc? verebilir.
~ Alison Fell