Not Promised Quotes

#1. He'd promised her forever, but now that there was another option, would he want to take it? He'd said not, but Bessina had butterflies taking up residence in her stomach at the thought. She had to know for sure.

Inger Iversen

#2. Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.

Gina Greenlee

#3. She promised herself that from now on she would try to sit as close to Neal as possible. She could not kick someone eight chairs away.

Tamora Pierce

#4. What Can be Promised. - Actions can be promised, but not feelings, for these are involuntary. Whoever promises somebody to love him always, or to hate him always, or to be ever true to him, promises something that it is out of his power to bestow.

Anonymous

#5. Discovering your personal promised land may not be an easy task

Sunday Adelaja

#6. You promised, Seaweed brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!

Rick Riordan

#7. I'm like a toy to her, a toy that someone has promised her. Maybe not her favorite, but still hers.

Nicole Gulla

#8. We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.

Walter Brueggemann

#9. Ballardian banality comes from not getting the future that we were promised, or getting it too late to make the promised difference.

Warren Ellis

#10. Elisabeth had not had her future and her parents had not had theirs, there was nothing to this so-called future which was always promised to the young.

Ingeborg Bachmann

#11. Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#12. The problem with Prosperity Theology is not that it promises too much, but that it aims for so little. What God promises us in Christ is far above anything that can be measured in earthly wealth - and believers are not promised earthly wealth nor the gift of health.

Albert Mohler

#13. I shan't take advantage,' Lucius promised seriously. 'And she can't be forced into a marriage, of course. It is a new century. Unfortunately. But I am afraid that I am compelled to pursue this courtship until Antanasia realizes her place at my side. As she will.'
'I will not.

Beth Fantaskey

#14. Today promised not to be about the ecstasy of life on a farm. Today was the day we were "processing" broilers or, to abandon euphemism, killing chickens.

Michael Pollan

#15. Your promised me a round of angry sex." He hummed softly, with obvious relish. "I'm waiting for it baby."
"Not sure you want your dick anywhere near my teeth while I'm feeling this way about you.

Sylvia Day

#16. My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.

Nandan Nilekani

#17. To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.

William Tyndale

#18. I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.

Barbara Mandrell

#19. I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.

Cormac McCarthy

#20. Whenever I got a shot, the team that selected me, I just promised myself that I would give them something that they wouldn't regret ... The Chicago Bears drafted me, and I'm going to make sure they're not second-guessing themselves about that.

Devin Hester

#21. Presidential candidate Donald Trump had a meeting with Ted Cruz. He said he does not know why he agreed to fly to New York to meet Ted Cruz and then he promised to bring that kind of leadership to the Oval Office.

Conan O'Brien

#22. 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

#23. The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change.

L. Tom Perry

#24. When you go through a significant injury and have a major career change, you truly do go one year at a time, and you don't look past what's going on now, because you are not sure what's going to happen. Tomorrow is not promised.

Peyton Manning

#25. I have to believe he will do as he promised. Yet the truth is that I trust him because of the way he snared my fingers in his. That is the worst reason of all to trust, but my bitter heart will not stop singing its recklessly giddy song.

Kate Elliott

#26. I had to keep telling her I'd promised not to let her violate me.

Carrie Jones

#27. I will not feed him to a tree, as is done in the Unseelie Court with unruly children," Mark promised.

Cassandra Clare

#28. God has not promised to bless my thoughts, but He has promised to bless His Word.

Billy Graham

#29. Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.

Francis Quarles

#30. I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I'm not allowed a say in yours?
But I had promised.

Jojo Moyes

#31. Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.

Conan O'Brien

#32. In the end, he said he judged the Bible to be a sound book. Nevertheless, he wondered why the white people were not better than they are, having had it for so long. He promised that just as soon as white people achieved Christianity, he would recommend it to his own folks.

Charles Frazier

#33. Knowing that God is faithful, it really helps me to not be captivated by worry. But knowing that He will do what He has said, He will cause it to happen, whatever He has promised, and then it causes me to be less involved in worrying about a situation.

Josh McDowell

#34. Aelin had promised herself, months and months ago, that she would not pretend to be anything but what she was. She had crawled through darkness and blood and despair-she had survived.

Sarah J. Maas

#35. The decision is not mine to make," Philip said. "I promised Meg to Miss Marianne for the duration of her visit. You will have to ask her.

Julianne Donaldson

#36. From my old neighborhood, I learned nothing was guaranteed, not even life itself. You better get it today, because tomorrow is not promised.

Junior Seau

#37. 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

#38. As I promised you before, you do not need to be afraid of me. I will not hurt you. If you give yourself the chance to get to know me, you will see that I will be a generous husband." Angelica

Brooklyn Ann

#39. The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised. We're not where we should be in terms of our national economies. We don't know how to get out of this malaise and I think we now have to consider more radical policies.

Adair Turner

#40. Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the benefits they were promised, and they should realize that, were it not for these veterans, there would be nothing to hand out.

Nick Lampson

#41. I pray that we would let God take us through the desert - not just so that we can arrive in the Promised Land, but so that we can talk, or simply listen, to Him along the way.

Katie Kiesler

#42. Medicine today invests heavily in information technology, yet the promised improvement in patient safety and productivity frankly have not been realized,

Peter Pronovost

#43. Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift
i guess thats why its the present

Joe Budden

#44. 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

#45. Thanks for not freaking out," I said.
"Oh, I'm freaking out," Paul promised, his eyes wide. "I just think it's awesome!

Rick Riordan

#46. 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

#47. Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men.

Gustave Flaubert

#48. God has not promised Skies always blue, Flower-strewn pathways All our life through; God has not promised Sun without rain, Joy without sorrow, Peace without pain.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#49. I was not good at the whole making-death-a-positive-transition thing. How could I? I wanted her to fight to the last breath. It was a mistake. I should have listened to her fear, comforted her. Instead I'd promised her that everything would be okay, that she would heal.

Kristin Hannah

#50. Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised

Dick Durbin

#51. We are not promised skies always blue, but a Helper to see us through.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#52. God has promised that whatever you face, you are not alone. He knows your pain. He loves you. And He will bring you through the fire.

Sheila Walsh

#53. I know I fucked up. I've said I'm sorry for hurting you; I meant it. I promised you that I wouldn't let you down again; I meant it. You might not believe that right now, but you will in time - I won't have it any other way. You're mine, and I refuse to live my life without you in it.

Suzanne Wright

#54. I will not let anything hurt you," Balik promised.
"I will not let anything come between us," I replied with my own whispered
oath.
"You and me," Balik smiled a little.
"Always," I agreed as I reached up to draw his face to mine and pressed my lips
onto his.

Melanie Cusick-Jones

#55. We are promised abundance of all good things
yet we are rich only in hunger and thirst. What would become of us if we did not take our stand on hope, and if our heart did not hasten beyond this world!

John Calvin

#56. I promised in my head to leave you be. And when I saw you ... I was supposed to be man enough to turn you away. Fuck, I'm not a horny teenager. It's just you." He finally did stand. "You break me. You break everything I think I stand for.

Debra Anastasia

#57. Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live. And that is as true for my kind as for yours.

Miles Cameron

#58. Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

Pope Paul VI

#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. Discouraged not by difficulties without, or the anguish of ages within, the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.

Helen Keller

#61. I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#62. Do not forget in the darkness what you have been promised in the light.

Katie J. Davis

#63. Science, the agent that once promised to eradicate the supernatural, had, through the nuclear threat, resurrected it. Magic was not exactly alive, but it was surely undead.

Jim Trombetta

#64. When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life.

Robert Kennedy

#65. I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.

Ron Paul

#66. Don't let them get me, Cassie. Don't let me die.'
'You're not going to die, Sams.'
'Promise?'
I Promised.

Rick Yancey

#67. Fate doesn't guarantee us a happy ending. We're not promised to be together no matter what. But in dimension after dimension, world after world, fate gives us a chance. Our destiny isn't some kind of mystical prophecy. Our destiny is what we do with that chance.

Claudia Gray

#68. Hold fast to God, do not give up and He will fulfill His Word concerning you, for He is faithful who has promised

Sunday Adelaja

#69. The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of it all as a game. She had promised him the world. His flesh in the flesh of his enemies. And much too late had she realized what he had sown in her. Love. Worst of all poisons.

Cornelia Funke

#70. May I leave you with some genuine wisdom, in place of all the humdrum claptrap? Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live.

Miles Cameron

#71. The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.

C.S. Lewis

#72. Please do not lose hope in the Savior and His love for you. It is constant. He promised that He would not leave us comfortless.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#73. They [Democratic Party ] did not do what they promised to do. And we're not going to end trade - that's very important to state - but we're going to have to be more careful about it, and we have to recognize, as politicians, we don't represent some international company.

Jeff Sessions

#74. He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.

Francis Quarles

#75. When we talk to ourselves, we're not talking to anyone very smart, because our outlook is very limited. But if we talk to God, we're talking to someone who knows everything. He knows what he promised in the beginning, and he knows exactly how to fulfill those promises no matter the circumstances.

Jim Cymbala

#76. People already have a desire for the things Heaven holds. We
simply need to see that these things are not just some fanciful
dream from a song but are a promised future reality.

Vance C. Kessler

#77. All that young people are promised today are the rewards of a shallow materialism and a degree that is defined primarily as a job credential, one that ironically does not even live up to its own claims of guaranteeing either decent employment or a better way of life.

Henry Giroux

#78. The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.

Marco Rubio

#79. If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules - since that is a description, not of the defeat of death, but simply of death itself, seen from a different angle.

N. T. Wright

#80. I promised, I will not leave you. I will not hold back anymore. I will not allow anyone to get in between us. They don't have to deal with just you anymore. They'll have to deal with me too.

Tijan

#81. Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Emile Zola

#82. Instead, my Lord, You have promised that Your plans for Your people are plans to prosper and not to harm, plans to give us hope and a future. (Jer. 29:11)

Beth Moore

#83. Instead, I remembered that in the Bible, Jesus promised his followers that they would be provided with everything they needed, everything they "needed," but not necessarily everything they wanted.

Jose N. Harris

#84. Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered - the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation.

Christine Pelosi

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. Though it pained me, I gave in. Why was it that I repeatedly succumbed to the first whisper of a promised maybe? How did the enticer, hope, always find my heart unguarded? There was no such thing as hope. Not for me. Why was it so hard to accept that?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#88. Okay, you promised, just two friends having dinner." I slurred. He shook his head and laughed.
"No you said that not me," He smirked.

S.L. Ross

#89. Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with the task of spreading His message and so giving rise to a society of believers: His Church. He promised the Spirit of truth to His Church and then sent Him.

Pope Paul VI

#90. just because you have stopped believing in something you once were promised does not mean that the promise itself was a lie.

Michael Chabon

#91. The astounding energy of post-menopausal women (promised by Margaret Mead) is here, but the optimism to fuel it is not. The world seems ever more surely in the grip of materialism and surfaces. Image, image, image is all it sees. As an image, I'm definitely getting blurry.

Erica Jong

#92. People do not expect to see signs and wonders today as the disciples saw them of old. Has God changed? Or has our faith waned so that we are not expecting the greater works that Jesus promised?

Samuel Wigglesworth

#93. I'm not doing anything, baby. I love you. I'm being faithful to you." He held up his ring, his thumb stroking the metal. "I promised ... I promise

S.C. Stephens

#94. But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

Dinah Sheridan

#95. Live life like it's your last day. Make every minute count. For tomorrow is not promised. Live in the moment.

Alisha Broughton

#96. 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

#97. I love an arcade. I love a boardwalk game. But I also love a rollercoaster. Though I think the rollercoaster love comes from the fact that it took a really long time for me to reach the height requirement, so I promised myself very early on that when I reach that, I will not take it for granted.

Melissa Rauch

#98. To receive all of the promised blessings, we must accept the gospel in faith and in full. However, this certain faith does not usually come all at once. We learn spiritually line upon line and precept upon precept.

James E. Faust

#99. I don't understand you, Pigeon. I thought I knew women, but you're so fucking confusing I don't know which way is up."
"I don't understand you, either. You're supposed to be Eastern's ladies' man. I'm not getting the full freshmen experience they promised in the brochure," I teased.

Jamie McGuire

#100. God expects every Christian to live a holy life. But holiness is not only expected; it is the promised birthright of every Christian.

Jerry Bridges