Quotes About Promises

It's funny how the person who hurts you is the one who swore they never would.

When I was a kid I used to think being in love was something magical, something special. But when I fell for you all my expectations of love shattered. I thought you loved me, you said you loved me, but now your leaving me for someone else. This is not the fairytale story I wanted. I loved you, I still do, but now I'm brokenhearted, I let you in, I gave you my all, but you just played with my heart, you lied. You said we'd always be together, you promised we'd always be together...

We can make a million promises but still wont change. It isn't right to stay together when we bring each others pain.

Be with someone who promises to give you laugh lines when youre old. Who tells you: I love you on a daily basis and proves it.

Always tell the truth, use kind words, keep your promises, giggle and laugh, be positive, love one another, always be grateful, forgiveness is mandatory, try new things, say please and thank you, say your prayers, and smile.

You cant prove love to someone with just words it's the actions behind promises that reveal if your being real or not.

Promises mean everything, but after they are broken, sorry means nothing.

It's as if some master perfumer and necromancer had foreseen all the broken promises of your life to come, all the pangs of unrequited love and unreturned letters; the torment of watching a phone that never rings; the bright expectancy of fresh hope at breakfast, in ruins by sunset ... it was as if he took all these things and blended them into a single fragrance and called it whatever the French is for Disappointment — Désolé or Chagrin or something.

He had always assumed it was a flaw in people, a human failing, that created this need to believe in something beyond the ordinary. Religion existed to control society, to monitor those without the capacity to think things through for themselves, to provide promises and shimmering images in the sky, so that the urges of the masses could be calmed and regulated. What, after all, did the word 'faith' connote, except a willing blindness to the lack of actual proof?

Ecco, amore mio. Quell'uomo elegante con i gomiti appoggiati al bancone del caff des Tourneurs, che ti sorride, è mio padre. Sotto la terra di Francia riposano i tuoi compagni. Ogni volta che sento qualcuno esprimere le proprie idee in un mondo libero, penso a loro. Allora mi ricordo che la parola «straniero» è una delle più belle promesse del mondo, una promessa a colori, bella come la Libertà

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey.

We accept so many commitments in regard to life that a time comes when, despairing of ever managing to fulfill them all, we face the graves, we call upon death, "death, which brings help to destinies that have trouble coming true." But while death may exempt us from commitments we have made in regard to life, it cannot exempt us from our commitments to ourselves, especially the most important one: namely, the commitment to live in order to be worthy and deserving.

This was because intense physical suffering had enforced a regime on him. Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed: to kindness, to knowledge we make promises only; pain we obey.

Christians can be confident about their growth in sanctification and eternal security because they are confident in the God who promises it.

It is sufficient unto our present purpose that in and by these promises we are made partakers of the divine nature, and are therein endowed with a constant, habitual disposition and inclination unto all acts and duties of holiness; for our power followeth our love and inclinations, as impotency is a consequent of their defect.

But there are deals, and there are promises. A deal you can make with anyone. A promise is something you make with someone you trust.

The orchestra concludes to a merry burst of applause and the orchestra slides into a waltz—a much-needed chance for the dancers to catch their breath, perhaps even an opportunity for the whispering of urgent secrets and tender promises...

Evil people can still keep promises. Many have done just that, girl, though they are usually not promises you 'rational' people wish them to keep.

Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven.

We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.

A little difference between PROMISES and MEMORIES... PROMISES- ...We break them! MEMORIES- They break us.! Its true.

You can make promises and you can break promises easily, but the hardest thing is to maintain that promise.

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.