Quotes About Promise

Love means admiration for qualities in the lover that promise to correct our weaknesses and imbalances; love is a search for completion.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

I loved her body for the promise of who she was. It was a most inspiring promise.

Sexiness might at first appear to be a merely physiological phenomenon, the result of awakened hormones and stimulated nerve endings. But in truth it is not so much about sensations as it is about ideas—foremost among them the idea of acceptance and the promise of an end to loneliness and shame.

We are about to understand, but have not yet understood. This moment is important because it generally does not lie up to its promise. We abandon the process of reflection. Not much of a decision about the personal meaning of love, justice or success is achieved, and we move on to something else. Looking at Twombly's painting assists us in a crucial thought: 'The part of me that wonders about important questions and then gets confused has not had enough recognition

I did not live Chloe for her body, I loved her body for the promise of who she was. It was a most inspiring promise

Love could not induce us to take on the burden of propagating the species without promising us the greatest happiness we could imagine.

At least I know today that I will not have to wait that long.

You were supposed to be free [...] That was all I had to give you.

You can still have children. We'll buy out your contract. You'll get everything you deserve. We owe you.' She wavered. 'You're not going to take it back?

Show me, Grandfather, and I will finish what you started.

I said to myself – wait for me in hell, I'll come to you.

The promise was kept in 1927 – Ottawa would meet half the cost of a meagre, means-tested pension for those over seventy. Compelled to pay the other half, most provinces hesitated. Nova Scotia found a novel way to raise its share: it legalized liquor sold in government-run stores, and used the profits to help its elderly. Other provinces followed suit. By ending prohibition, Ontario Tories, elected in 1923, bounced from deficit to surplus budgets.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone, I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.

Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last.

Isn't it wonderful to serve the God of "it's never too late"?)

I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye, I will never forget - not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you, smile at me and make it true.

The inscription in your wedding band says 'forever,' Callie. And it means forever. I'll love you until I close my eyes for the last time. And even afterward, I'll love you.

Dear Elliot, I know. When will I see you again? Yours, Kai

She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.

Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.

Misfortune prompts us to summon our utmost strength to oppose grief and recover tranquility, while prosperity hurries us away until we are overwhelmed by our passions. Queen Margot Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. La Rochefoucault We promise according to our hopes; we perform according to our fears. I sometimes wonder is the esprit, gaiety, intellectual seriousness and serious stylishness of the earlier period was the reflex of poverty and shared hardship.

Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate. The more clearly we learn to recognize that the ground and strength and promise of all our fellowship is in Jesus Christ alone, the more serenely shall we think of our fellowship and pray and hope for it.