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Quotes About Promise

The Grave is no bar to my call. Let whosoever sounds me think not of glory, but only of salvation.
~ Robert Jordan
For as long as I live and after.
~ Robert Jordan
Forsaken, the: Name given to thirteen of the most powerful Aes Sedai ever known, who went over to the Dark One during the War of the Shadow in return for the promise of immortality. According to both legend and fragmentary records, they were imprisoned along with the Dark One when his prison was resealed. Their names are still used to frighten children.
~ Robert Jordan
I am a pioneer now, looking onto a promised land.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
The same disastrous death occasioned 2 Peter 3:3-4, "scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, 'Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.
~ Robert M. Price
We never know what we have lost, or what we have found. We are only ourselves, and that promise. Continue to walk in the world. Yes, love it!
~ Robert Penn Warren
but you haven't kept your word
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Love you! Girl, you're in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise you I'd never tell you a lie? Love you! I love you with all there is of me to love. Heart, soul, brain. Every fibre of body and spirit thrilling to the sweetness of you. There's nobody in the world for me but you, Valancy.
~ L.M. Montgomery
And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy, assured Anne.
~ L.M. Montgomery
You've been crying, Aunt Edith," said a troubled Timothy. He got up out of his chair and hugged her. "Just you wait till I grow up and when I'm a man nothing'll ever make you cry.
~ L.M. Montgomery
No, darling. We've always known each other in Tomorrow,' I said.
~ L.M. Montgomery
You wanted to be Mrs. and Mrs. you shall be with a vengeance as far as I am concerned.
~ L.M. Montgomery
it has taught me a lesson not to give my word of honor about cows.
~ L.M. Montgomery
But don't tell Marilla I said anything about it. She might think I was putting my oar in and I promised not to do that. Wild horses won't drag the secret from me, promised Anne solemnly. How would wild horses drag a secret from a person anyhow? But Matthew was gone, scared at his own success. He fled hastily to the remotest corner of the horse pasture lest Marilla should suspect what he had been up to.
~ L.M. Montgomery
No, I don't want you to kiss me--yet. And our first kiss mustn't have the flavour of good-bye. It would be a bad omen. Star o' Morning, I'm sorry you're going. But I'll see you again before long.
~ L.M. Montgomery
You'll never have to say that after this, Delilah. I will always love you." "World without end?" "World without end," answered Diana. They kissed each other, as in a rite. Two boys on the fence whooped derisively, but who cared?
~ L.M. Montgomery
As she was finishing her song, the notes dipped down low—they carried a sadness that was more than a sadness at the death of men; rather it was a sadness at the lives of men, and of women. It reminded those who heard the rising, dipping notes, of notes of hopes that had been born, and, yet, died; of promise, and the failure of promise.
~ Larry McMurtry
Once Louis Wu had sworn to live forever.
~ Larry Niven
maybe just once in this life someone loves us for the us we don't even know how to be yet. And if we lose him too early--in the name of all the promises in the world: a new job, a new city, an old love offering us happily ever after--we may just lose that chance to be our best self.
~ Laura Dave
In one way or another, this is the deal we all sign when we love someone. For better or worse. It's the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love.
~ Laura Dave
Why did you do that, Pedro? It will look ridiculous, you agreeing to marry Rosaura. What happened to the eternal love you swore to Tita? Aren't you going to keep that vow?' 'Of course I'll keep it. When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love, and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn't you do the same?' 'So you intend to marry without love?' 'No, Papa. I am going to marry with a great love for Tita that will never die.
~ Laura Esquivel
Y juró ante su tumba que ella nunca renunciaría al amor
~ Laura Esquivel
Pa promised that when they came to the West, Laura should see a papoose.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton