Quotes About Promise

You make me better, you know that? I'm a fucked-up human being, but you make me better. Promise me if I don't make you happy, you'll toss me aside, no matter how much pressure I put on you. Because even though I can be selfish, all I really want is for you to be happy.

You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?

You know I'm no squealer, Harry.' 'You're a rummy. But no matter how rum dumb you get, if you ever talk about that, I promise you.' 'I'm a good man,' he said. 'You oughtn't to talk to me like that.' 'They can't make it fast enough to keep you a good man,' I told him. But I didn't worry about him any more because who was going to believe him?

Oh, darling," she said. "You will be good to me, won't you?" What the hell, I thought. I stroked her hair and patted her shoulder. She was crying. "You will, won't you?" She looked up at me. "Because we're going to have a strange life.

I am not religious, he said. But I will say ten Our Fathers and ten Hail Marys that I should catch this fish, and I promise to make a pilgrimage to the Virgen de Cobre if I catch him. That is a promise.

I didn't know how I could feel any worse. But you can all right. I can promise you that.

Don't forget to tell Pedrico the head is his.

Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

Take it back. Sure. Anything. I never heard of Brett Ashley. How's that? No. Not that. About me going to hell. Oh, don't go to hell, I said. Stick around. We're just starting lunch.

Pez –dijo en voz alta pero suavemente–, seguiré contigo hasta la muerte.

I'll say just what you wish and I'll do what you wish and then you will never want any other girls, will you?' She looked at me very happily. 'I'll do what you want and say what you want and then I'll be a great success, won't I?' 'Yes.

Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

And if I do it you'll be happy and things will be like they were and you'll love me? I love you now. You know I love you.

Direi só o que tu desejares que eu diga e só farei o que tu desejares que eu faça, e tu nunca quererás outra, pois não? --------------------- Catherine em O Adeus Às Armas, Ernest Hemingway

This is perhaps why so many of us who know love fear love. We know that love is not the absence of pain. If anything, love is the promise of pain. No one has loved more deeply than God. Has anyone ever been more betrayed? God would not know suffering if He did not know love. But because He is Love, He chose to suffer on our behalf. Without love there is no glory in suffering.

trust is also a leap of faith—"a risk masquerading as a promise,"7 as Adam Phillips writes.

Beginnings are always ripe with possibilities, for they hold the promise of completion.

But in a culture that mandates individual fulfillment and lures us with the promise of being happier, never have we been more tempted to stray. Perhaps this is why we condemn infidelity more than ever even as we practice it more than ever.

I don't want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

Emily Dickinson, the poet, said a beautiful thing. "I dwell in possibility".

His was a country of fearful men: proud in the talking, paltry in the living, and every promise another lie.

The promise of a social gospel was for Luther an irrelevant and ultimately irrelevant and ultimately cruel delusion.

For the future, please promise me you will not make any life-altering oaths in order to influence my love life.

There's no prison worse than "I promise.