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Quotes About Promise

Run along." Outside in the corridor, we made a pact
~ Roald Dahl
Pero no te preocupes. Cena tranquilo. Charlie te esperará cuanto tiempo sea necesario y Wonka no abrirá la fábrica hasta que tú regreses. No, no te preocupes. No van a entrar sin ti.
~ Roald Dahl
Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that's what he promised 'em – his virgin daughters, young and tender and scared – urged this street gang to rape them as much as they wished in any way that they liked...if only they would leave him in peace!" Jubal snorted in disgust. "And the Bible cites this sort of scum as being a righteous man.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
First, I want your solemn oath not even to talk in your sleep about this job. If my simple word is not good, is my oath better?
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Each copy is guaranteed—or double your money back—to be printed on genuine paper of enough pages to hold the covers apart.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Where you go, I go. Today and to the end of our lives. Unless you tell me to get out, that you don't want me anymore. I have spoken." "You certainly have, dear. Hilda?
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Even in her cap and gown Susan looked like a sunrise, extravagant and full of promise. Wherever she went things seemed, as they always did, to organize around her.
~ Robert B. Parker
She radiated a kind of excitement, the possibility of infinite promise. It wasn't just me. Most people seemed to feel that spending time with Susan would be an adventure.
~ Robert B. Parker
The best is yet to be.
~ Robert Browning
In the worst of times music is a promise that times are meant to be better. Ultimately, its most important political purpose is to keep us human under fire.
~ Robert Christgau
I looked at her, and thought that she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. "Can I shoot him later?" She smiled again, and this time patted my hand. "We'll see." Something to live for.
~ Robert Crais
Maybe he's just some guy. Maybe he doesn't have anything to do with why she left or why she took the money." Meryl Lawrence made a tiny self-loathing snort. "I'll ask her if you can find her." I took the envelope. She watched me put it away but didn't look any less unhappy with herself or relieved. "Thank you." "I promised." She gave me a rueful smile. "If
~ Robert Crais
It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living.
~ Robert E. Howard
Gleaming shell of an outworn lie; fable of Right divine— You gained your crowns by heritage, but Blood was the price of mine. The throne that I won by blood and sweat , by Crom, I will not sell For promise of valleys filled with gold, or threat of the Halls of Hell!
~ Robert E. Howard
I'm married to the future.
~ Robert Ferrigno
The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it is still too early to assertions. They're all 'in the field.' It remains to be seen how many will cross the finish line.
~ Robert Frost
One member of the company was still awaited; the shepherd-boy for the nymphs to woo, the knight for whom the ladies waited at the window
~ Kenneth Grahame
To-day, to him gazing South with a new-born need stirring in his heart, the clear sky over their long low outline seemed to pulsate with promise; to-day, the unseen was everything, the unknown the only real fact of life.
~ Kenneth Grahame
One member of the company was still awaited; the shepherd-boy for the nymphs to woo, the knight for whom the ladies waited at the window, the prince that was to kiss the sleeping summer back to life and love. But when meadow-sweet, debonair and odorous in amber jerkin, moved graciously to his place in the group, then the play was ready to begin.
~ Kenneth Grahame
Let me get you all some punch," I said. "You're leaving us?" said Isabel, sounding panicky. "I'll be right back," I promised. "If anyone comes near you, just scream and run.
~ Kenneth Oppel
Meet back here at three. We can retire and compare notes." "Don't be one second late," I murmured in return. "Or the knife that sleeps in my bag might just find a home in your heart.
~ Keri Arthur
Know that life is a river or a stream which is constant and each appearance is as a pool that may refresh, in which others may be refreshed . . . make the world a better place because ye have lived in it. Ye can only do that by the hour, by the moment, by the day ye live. For ye are not promised more than one day in the physical consciousness at a time. Use it—don't abuse it! 5392
~ Kevin J. Todeschi
You're not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.
~ Khaled Hosseini
For you, a thousand times over (Bareh tu hazar dafa)
~ Khaled Hosseini