Top 100 Never Promised Quotes
#2. God has never promised a life without suffering, but He has promised to comfort us and give us the strength to carry on. He has also promised to work good out of everything that happens to us if we love Him and continue wanting His will in our lives (Rom. 8:28).
Joyce Meyer
#3. I keep my campaign promises, but I never promised to wear stockings.
Ella T. Grasso
#4. Pray all you like, ask anything you want, but don't forget that he never promised he'd say yes. He never guaranteed us anything. Not anything at all. Except one thing. Just one thing ...
That he cares ... That is all. Nothing else.
Madeleine L'Engle
#5. We think we should only go into a country if we can be sure of our return. Jesus never promised that.
Andrew Van Der Bijl
#6. Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness.
Gustave Le Bon
#7. I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.
Lynn Anderson
#8. We never promised we would stay the same,/But only we would shape our change/From this now single clay.[p. 82]
Mary Catherine Bateson
#9. There are those who have made their fortunes on other people's misfortune. The Bible never promised that life would be fair.
Billy Graham
#10. I've never promised to play fair where you're concerned.
E.L. James
#11. God never promised us a trouble-free life.
Joyce Meyer
#12. Life is a gift. The Lord never promised any of us permanent happiness on earth. But - and here's the saving grace - he will give us the strength we need to keep on going if we ask him.
Paige Lee Elliston
#13. Whenever we are tempted to despair about the shape of American Christianity, we should remember that Jesus never promised the triumph of the American church. He promised the triumph of the church.
Russell D. Moore
#14. He never promised us that we wouldn't suffer. But He's too just not to redeem it. And He does promise us that He won't leave us. That He'll be with us through the worst. That He loves us.
Becky Wade
#15. I did indeed say you could have lovers. But I never promised that I would not kill them.
Madeline Hunter
#16. Science has promised us truth ... It has never promised us either peace or happiness.
Gustave Le Bon
#17. God could have kept Daniel out of the lion's den. But God has never promised to keep us out of hard places. What He has promised is to go with us through every hard place, and bring us through victoriously.
Merv Rosell
#18. The world is beautiful but Life never promised to be smooth.
Biola Olatunde
#19. Since our yesterdays are gone and our tomorrows are never promised, TODAY I want to thank all my amazing friends and family for being in my life.
Steven Aitchison
#20. There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in.
Mariano Rajoy
#21. Make every day count, because you're never promised a next day.
Auliq Ice
#22. God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.
Madeleine L'Engle
#24. I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#25. I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.
Jeanne DuPrau
#26. I only said I would stop talking to you, he'd written. I never promised to stop loving you.
Courtney Milan
#28. I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
Jim Henson
#29. I never promised to take you to Europe. I told you we could visit your sister in Texas.
Terri Reid
#30. You promised me you would never cheat on me, that you'd love me forever and we would never get a divorce." "I still love you, and I hate that I cheated on you, and I wish we'd never gotten divorced.
Terry McMillan
#31. Graydon: "Where are those files you wanted me to look at? I can never figure out the new system on the shared drive, and you promised you'd show me. Call me back when you can."
No, son. You can figure it out on your own. I have faith in you.
Thea Harrison
#32. They told me that, as a woman, I'd never get into graduate school in physics, so they got me a job as a secretary at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and promised that, if I were a good girl, I would take courses there.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
#33. My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
B.B. King
#34. I promised never to let the Rwandan Genocide die because I knew the Rwandans didn't have much power internationally and certainly didn't have the resources. I felt it was my duty having witnessed it, and having stayed to witness it, that I had to talk about it and keep it going.
Romeo Dallaire
#35. I thought you'd run because of me, Mrs. Miller, like you did before. I won't mind your being around. I'll enjoy it. You're the one who promised never to suffer life with a Yank, remember?
Heather Graham
#36. Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.
Bill O'Reilly
#37. I got you here, like I promised I would. I wish ... I wish I could've seen your Eden, but this place isn't for me. It never was. I have to find my own place in the world."
Bending down, I brushed my lips to his. "Goodbye, Ezekiel,
Julie Kagawa
#38. Maybe the most important question was the one that burned bright, the one that nagged, the one that promised Christian could never be scraped from my consciousness. No blade was sharp enough. No cut could ever go deep enough.
A.L. Jackson
#39. It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.
Helmut Newton
#40. The life I chose when I promised my six-year-old self never to forget being a child, never to grow frightened and dishonest like the grownups I saw, nodding politely to each other without affection, and decided to put my true self in a time capsule for later use.
Aurora Levins Morales
#41. I look back at James one last time, and he gives me his signature smile, wide and cocky. but it's not real. Sometimes I think it's never real. James is the best at hiding his pain, disgusing the feelings. He knows what it takes to stay out of the Program. He'll keep us safe.
He promised.
Suzanne Young
#42. I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
Queen Latifah
#43. My mother agreed to aid my abuse of alcohol but only if I promised never to tell my newly converted Mormon sister, whose identity I had stolen.
Chelsea Handler
#44. If you love someone, you should say it often,
You never know when they'll be layin' in a coffin.
Wake up, it's important that you know that
No one on Earth is promised tomorrow.
MC Lyte
#45. I promised to never leave you in this world alone, no matter how happy you are without me i shall keep my promise ever and will be there for you when all leave you. That's my love for you.
Debolina
#46. Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.
Kenneth Grahame
#47. They always wanted to do it for the children. But they never do, turns out, and the children go home crying, not having received the candy they were promised.
Douglas Wilson
#48. My mother and I smoked a cigarette; she was trying to quit as I was trying to start. Therefore, we shared a cigarette between us- in fact, we'd promised never to smoke a whole one alone.
John Irving
#49. And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself he would never become enslaved by, has gradually become his sole reason to go on living.
Paulo Coelho
#50. In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'
Charles Spurgeon
#51. You've gone back to the way you used to be before. The way you promised you'd never be again.
Sophie Kinsella
#52. I'll drive both of you," Seb offered at once.
Mae nodded at him with gratitude.
"No," Jamie said sternly. "I'm never getting into your horrible car. I promised myself that, because
it's horrible, and you're horrible. So take that!
Sarah Rees Brennan
#53. Another Chief remembered that since the Great Father promised them that they would never be moved they had been moved five times. "I think you had better put the Indians on wheels," he said sardonically, "and you can run them about whenever you wish.
Dee Brown
#54. You'll never be alone again," he promised. "I'll never leave you."
-Jack to Anne
Claudia Dain
#55. Pretend you're mine," he urged, his arms closing around her. "Just for a minute. Pretend there's never been anyone but me, that I'm the one you're promised to. Do it for me ... I'll never ask again.
Lisa Kleypas
#56. I'm glad has promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief-even the dogs are howling.
Sara Gruen
#57. During the war, I promised the dead I would never forget them. I stared at them, barely able to move myself. Pretended I was one of them. To this day I can recall the light in the ruins.
Chris Bohjalian
#58. We promised that we'd never leave one another again, until we both knew we were ready to stand on our own. And this vow, through everything we were yet to go through, we kept.
Patti Smith
#59. The one thing that never changes in America is that the white straight male is born with a promise. Women are not promised very much, and we embody our disappointment from the beginning.
Anna D. Shapiro
#60. I promised to always bring up a glass of water to her before we go to bed, and she promised to never let me dress myself.
Fred Savage
#61. And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it.
Nicole Krauss
#62. I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'
Alicia Keys
#63. I had questioned God. I had thought that I was so special, I could hold God to account. And why? I had never been promised, ever, that life would be safe and have a happy ending for myself and those I knew and loved, if only I had faith in Him. A
James Patterson
#64. Don't worry," the man promised. "They'll never have a clue.
Rick Riordan
#65. Music really did mean something to him, he realized, and it always had. It called to him, although there were no words to describe what it promised. It was like a secret language he never forgot how to speak, a hometown he could always return to when he tired of what life was throwing at him.
Tad Williams
#66. You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.
Anna Friel
#67. We never need feel we are alone or unloved in the Lord's service because we never are. The Savior has promised angels on our left and on our right to bear us up, and he always keeps his word.
Henry B. Eyring
#68. It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.
Wynonna Judd
#69. When I had to leave she kissed me on both cheeks - a thing she had never done before - and said, 'There's just one thing to remember; whatever happens, it does no good to be afraid.' So I promised not to be afraid, and may even have been a fool enough to think I could keep my promise.
Robertson Davies
#70. I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#71. Oh, I never kid about Artemis. I promised her I'd sit here and do nothing, so here I am doing nothing. Much like a really tall, bored guard dog. Personally, I'd rather be throwing myself onto an electric fence- be about the same, I think. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#72. There's never going to be someone else," he says, shaking his head. "You've wrecked me. I wouldn't be any good to anybody now - except for you.
Emm Cole
#73. Men with guns have never put me at ease no matter how many times they promised they were killing for good reason.
Tahereh Mafi
#74. But a book that did what books always promised to do and never actually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into somewhere better.
Lev Grossman
#75. I promised my mum that if something did happen to her, although I never thought anything would, I told her that I wouldn't give up on acting until I got my Oscar. This was her dream for me.
Cory Hardrict
#76. But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.
Dinah Sheridan
#77. She snuggled against Tom, grateful to have him back and ready to face any obstacles to their happiness. "You won't leave again, " she demanded, "No matter how difficult things might get for us."
"Never again," he promised.
Bonnie Dee
#78. At the age of six, Mahler accepted paid commissions as a composer, something he was never to do in later life, his mother having promised him two kreuzers on condition that he did not make any ink blots on the expensive music manuscript paper.
Jens Malte Fischer
#79. Though President Obama promised during the 2008 campaign to pass the DREAM Act, he never made it a priority and failed to bring Republicans and Democrats together to do it in his first term.
Juan Williams
#80. I'm afraid I'll lose myself in you, Gideon. I'm scared I'll lose the part of me I worked so hard to get back."
"I'd never let that happen." he promised fiercely.
Chapter 8, pg 140
Sylvia Day
#81. I failed you that night, Cassie. I'll never forgive myself for not making sure you were safe and protected. That should have never happened to you. And it won't ever happen again. I promised you I'd never let anyone hurt you like that. Just let me keep my fucking promise to you
J. Sterling
#82. When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.
Valerie June
#83. Nothing is promised to us, especially not the weather, but still, one day of warm beautiful sunshine is still one day of warm beautiful sunshine. Today's rain can never change that!
Jose N. Harris
#84. One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.
Mariah Carey
#85. Aelyx had promised things were fine between them, but Mister "I Would Never Lie To You" was about as honest as a felon.
Melissa Landers
#86. I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.
Bianca Jagger
#87. We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.
Rick Riordan
#88. I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was hard. It was not a very happy time for me.
Dinah Sheridan
#89. You will never walk again, Bran," the pale lips promised, "but you will fly.
George R R Martin
#90. My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
Steve Jobs
#91. You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm where I belong.
Maya Angelou
#92. I sank my head onto my knees. I was glad of the darkness. I closed the tin lid and pressed it tight. I promised myself I would never open it again. Never. I would never taste it. I would never even try. I was glad of the darkness, because in the darkness, no one can see you cry.
Gill Lewis
#93. The Reestablishment promised a future too perfect to be possible and society was too desperate to disbelieve. They never realized they were signing away their souls to a group planning on taking advantage of their ignorance. Their fear. Most
Tahereh Mafi
#94. I will never go anywhere with vampires again, I promised myself. I let the lure of the money and the excitement of the travel pull me in. But I won't do that again. As God is my witness . . . Then I had to laugh out loud. Scarlett O'Hara, I wasn't. "I'll never be hungry again,
Charlaine Harris
#95. I'll hold onto it, sir," the officer said. "It will only be for a moment."
"I promised her I'd never take it off," Travis said through his teeth.
Jamie McGuire
#96. You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.
James Callaghan
#97. Worldwide travel is not compulsory. Great minds have been fostered entirely by staying close to home. Moses never got further than the Promised Land. Da Vinci and Beethoven never left Europe. Shakespeare hardly went anywhere at all-certainly not to Elsinore or the coast of Bohemia.
Jan Morris
#98. I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief
even the dogs were howling.
Sara Gruen
#99. I glanced at Carson, who had promised things would be alright. His gaze was on the floor, and a muscle in his jaw flexed rhythmically but unhelpfully. If he was trying to send me a message, I was out of luck, because I'd never learned Morse Code for Assholes.
Rosemary Clement-Moore
#100. And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I believe in a heaven that I will never enter, but he waits for me wagging his big fan of a tail so I, soon to arrive, will feel welcomed.
Pablo Neruda
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