Top 100 Promised Quotes
#1. Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised.
Martin Luther
#2. Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#3. Hitler promised not to invade Czechoslovakia, Jeremy. Welcome to the real world.
Mark Corrigan
#4. In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.
Albert Camus
#5. The God understood as a father figure, who guided ultimate personal decisions, answered our prayers, and promised rewards and punishment based upon our behavior was not designed to call anyone into maturity.
John Shelby Spong
#6. Don't cry for me, just love yourself more today than you did yesterday. It's true when they say tomorrow isn't promised and live everyday like it's your last.
Dominique Thomas
#7. Smile for the camara, Ellamara," he whispered. "I promise I won't bite." But even as he promised this, his teeth gently nipped my ear.
Now I did gasp, and he laughed again. "Not hard, anyway." he amended.
Kelly Oram
#8. (From Slices) Her skirt's so short, she's advertisin' the promised land. Somebody oughta slap her naked, then set a match to that git-up.
Savannah
#9. All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it ...
Katherine Anne Porter
#10. I love music. But I'm not gonna work myself to death. If there ever comes a point where I'm not enjoying it, then I'm not gonna do it anymore. I've promised myself that. I've written it down on paper and signed a contract.
Solange Knowles
#11. In a low whisper she was certain only her friend could
hear, she said, I specifically remember we both promised never to drink from any man's goblet of wine. From the looks of you, Frances Catherine, I'm thinking you broke your word.
Julie Garwood
#12. When we fail to believe the truth about who Jesus is and miss the impact of His astounding work in suffering and dying for our sin, it will be impossible to resist the allurement of the gods of this earth as they whisper their promised pleasures to us.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#13. is the one who perseveres under trialt because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of lifeu that the Lord has promised to those who love him.v
Anonymous
#14. But then, you see the cracks in the system. You begin to question. You realize that some of the answers you spent your young life memorizing were simply wrong.You realize that those who had promised to lead you to Jesus had left you stranded in the desert instead (Relevant Magazine).
Micah J. Murray
#15. From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, from gavel to gavel - whether it's the House of Representatives or the Senate. That's the whole reason for being.
Brian Lamb
#16. And so, yet again, we crush the blossom in our hand, lift our gaze from the tumbling petals, and ask the world, 'Where, then, is this beauty you promised?' But
Steven Erikson
#17. We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.
Louis Leakey
#18. You and I," I intertwined my fingers with his, "are one."
"Until the day I die," he promised, "And even after that."
"For the eternity?" I whispered on his lips.
"Evermore.
Ariana Godoy
#19. I only said I would stop talking to you, he'd written. I never promised to stop loving you.
Courtney Milan
#20. For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.
Rupert Sheldrake
#21. His sharp eyes scanned everything, but they didn't dart. Nothing about him promised sudden movement ...
Cara McKenna
#22. Amritsar is the place where my work and action speaks for itself. Since, I started contesting elections from this holy place, I have
promised myself never to abandon this place. Either, I will contest from Amritsar, or else I won't contest elections
Navjot Singh Sidhu
#23. The mind of youth eagerly catches at promised pleasure: pure and innocent by nature, it thinks not of the dangers lurking beneath those pleasures, till too late to avoid them.
Susanna Rowson
#24. President Obama met with ten House Democrats opposed to the health care bill. He did all he could to get their votes. He promised to campaign for them in their districts and when that didn't work, he threatened to campaign for them in their districts.
Argus Hamilton
#26. The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
Charles Colson
#27. I am from the Netherlands, so that means we like to stick to the rules, and we like to stick to the deal, and we like countries to do what they have promised.
Mark Rutte
#31. China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
Barbara Demick
#32. The american dream wasn't meant for me, cause lady liberty's a hypocrite she lied to me, promised me freedom,education, and equality never gave me nothing but slavery but now look at how dangerous you made me callin me a mad man because im strong and bold.
Tupac Shakur
#33. God never said that we wouldn't have unfair situations, that we wouldn't experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen.
Joel Osteen
#34. Next time,' I promised, knowing as I said it that it was a terrible, terrible, wonderful idea.
Jenn Marie Thorne
#35. When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.
Kristin Armstrong
#36. I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose.
I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
Gregory Maguire
#37. Hurry up. You promised me a ride." Okay, that wasn't a good thing to say to him. Not in her bedroom. "On your bike," she added hastily.
Christine Feehan
#38. I'm delighted to tell you that Jesus Christ offers complete and total forgiveness to anyone who will repent and believe on His name. ...There are no sins that He cannot cleanse, and He's promised that they will be gone forever.
James C. Dobson
#39. One day, she promised herself as she lay abed, one day she would allow herself to be less than strong. But not today. It could not be today.
George R R Martin
#40. But little Mouse, you are not alone,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes of mice and men
Go often askew,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!
Still you are blest, compared with me!
Robert Burns
#41. You promised me one night. I want you next to me tonight. We have the rest of our lives to be apart.
S.H. Kolee
#42. Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.
Tim O'Reilly
#43. A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may rejoice in you. And if I may not do so fully in this life let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that fullness ... Let me receive That which you promised through your truth, that my joy may be full.
Anselm Of Canterbury
#44. The plum-colored night sky was shifting to pink to make room for the day, which looked as though it might turn out "glorious and whimsical," as the Key West Citizen had promised.
Lucy Burdette
#45. Yes. I love you. I should have told you sooner, Lina. Not that I deserve to have your love after what I did to you. I wasn't there for you when you needed me. And I promised you I wouldn't let you down again. I'm not a guy who goes back on his promises. Can you ever forgive me for that?
Jaci Burton
#46. God not only wants us to rely on Him for our daily portion but He also demands we keep first place in our lives reserved for Him. It's easy to get so consumed with our promised land that we forget the promise Maker.
Lysa TerKeurst
#47. Papadopoulos simply did not possess the power. 'I can't!' I SHALT ASSIST, promised the Arrow of Dodona. STARTEST THOU: 'PLAGUEY, PLAGUEY, PLAGUEY.' 'The enchantment does not start plaguey, plaguey, plaguey!' 'Who are you talking to?' Austin demanded. 'My arrow! I
Rick Riordan
#48. We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again.
James Inhofe
#49. To be fair, he had never actually promised to be monogamous. That was my idea, and though I tried my hardest to convert him, the allure of other people was just too great.
David Sedaris
#50. I couldn't help but think of my mother's most life-altering mistake. Silly and romantic, getting married fresh out of high school to a man she barely knew, then producing me a year later. She'd always promised me that she had no regrets, that I was the best gift hr life had ever given her.
Stephenie Meyer
#51. faith is not hope, not a mere expectation of future things, but a present receiving of that which is promised in a real and substantial way. It is accepting, not expecting.
A.B. Simpson
#52. Comedy comes from pain, and no one knows that better than this woman Roseanne Barr - who was molested as a child. Uch. That poor molester. Roseanne never got over it. She felt violated. She had trust issues. She never got the candy he promised her.
Jeff Ross
#53. For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa's cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust.
Michelle Malkin
#54. No one is promised a tomorrow. She had been wrong about every man she loved or said she loved. She'd been wrong about everything. She'd entered into her life in the middle of its story. She had confused herself with the actress who portrayed her.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#55. You promised you would protect her Nico said.
He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger.It would've hurt less than reminding me of my promise.
Rick Riordan
#56. You have to make time and tend to things that are important in your life so you can live the life of blessing God has promised you!
Victoria Osteen
#57. The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.
Andrew Carnegie
#58. Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
Barry Goldwater
#59. Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart,
but do not expect to reach the promised land
without going through some wilderness together.
Charlie W Shedd
#60. Rather was it not a series of seven uneasy days, spent in restless pursuit of pleasure, and a wearisome anxiety to find out how to make the most of them? Where was the quiet, where the promised rest?
Charles Lamb
#61. I bet that guy was as obsessed with Sarah as I am with this other girl, and I bet he promised himself never to hurt her, just like I've been doin' - and look what he's done to her. He's left her a crumpled mess, lyin' on her bed all the time.
Markus Zusak
#62. America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.
Alison Lurie
#63. When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?
Will Ferrell
#64. When you begin to pursue your promised land, you get a lot of prohibitions and temptations
Sunday Adelaja
#65. I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
Jim Henson
#66. When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of teaching them how to regain His presence. Our Father promised a Savior to redeem them from their fallen condition.
Ezra Taft Benson
#67. Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.
Christopher Hitchens
#68. Last night the Taliban offered to release eight Westerners if the U.S. promised not to attack. The State Department declined but thanked the Taliban for the offer, saying it really felt good to laugh again.
Tina Fey
#69. She could not be silent even if the men of science, many of them smug experts in white lab coats who promised "better living through chemistry," dismissed her warnings as feminine hysteria.
Mark Hamilton Lytle
#70. God opens doors for you, but do not expect Him to walk through them for you. He delivered the Israelites from Egypt, but they were still required to walk to the Promised Land. They did not need to pray for a miracle, the miracle was in their feet.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#71. I need you," he said hoarsely. "I need you, Leah."
"I'm yours," she promised. "Always.
Priscilla Glenn
#72. And now 'tis man who dares assault the sky ... And as we come to claim our promised place, Aim only to replay the good you gave, And warm with human love the chill of space.
Thomas Goddard Bergin
#73. When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates told us that if we elected him, he would abolish homework. He promised this to the entire student body from the stage in the school gymnasium.
Martin O'Malley
#74. We are not called to be safe, we are simply promised that when we are in danger, God is right there with us. And there is no better place to be than in His hands.
Katie J. Davis
#75. Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ.
Philipp Melanchthon
#76. Honey, I have a feeling he doesn't think of you as a friend. Have you seen the way he looks at you?"
She glanced at him and as if he could feel her gaze, he turned his eyes on her. Soft and hard all at once. "Yeah," Mel said. "He promised to stop doing that.
Robyn Carr
#77. I will protect your sister and your vicious Grandmother with my life," Viper promised stiffly.
Anonymous
#78. That night, I thanked God for seeing me through that day of days and prayed I would make it through D plus 1. I also promised that if some way I could get home again, I would find a nice peaceful town and spend the rest of my life in peace.
Richard Winters
#79. I promised myself I would leave her alone and up until then, I really thought I could. But hearing her laugh and seeing her in her nightshirt did me in. She deserved one last tease.
Veronica Daye
#80. A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
Daniel Berrigan
#81. Some day we will try
To do as many things as are possible
And perhaps we shall succeed at a handful
Of them, but this will not have anything
To do with what is promised today, our
Landscape sweeping out from us to disappear
On the horizon.
John Ashbery
#82. If they lived through this, she promised to herself she'd be different. More open. Less worried. More fun. Less angry. More loving.
J.A. Konrath
#83. You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
Camille Claudel
#84. To the Jews only, and not to the Gentiles, was a Saviour promised.
Elias Hicks
#85. We are in need of a way out of our poverty of soul and the desperate state of our human condition. We find it in this child lying in a manger, who was and is Jesus Christ, the long-promised Messiah, Seed, Redeemer, and King.
Stephen Nichols
#86. When Mrs. Clinton ran for office, she promised economic growth across New York state, to bring in more than 200,000 jobs, ... She has not. We have lost jobs to outsourcing and globalization and to sending our jobs and industries to foreign countries.
David Brenner
#87. I never promised to take you to Europe. I told you we could visit your sister in Texas.
Terri Reid
#88. Like the dark clouds above that promised rain but withheld it, her presence there was a lie. For in truth, this horrific slaughter had already damned the small race; their fate had already come and gone.
S.J. Pow
#89. Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.
Bruce Springsteen
#90. Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.
John Mellencamp
#91. And I am not finished," I promised. "Tell me where to find the child."
"F*** you!"
"I'm not attracted to you," I said. "But if by that you mean you won't help me, then I have no use for you.
Rachel Caine
#92. Regardless of gender, one has to be willing to take what belongs and what has been promised, by not backing down and by not giving up. Never be willing to throw in the towel and accept defeat!
Ellen J. Barrier
#93. If we continue to live as we are living, will the promised blessings be fulfilled?
Carlos A. Godoy
#94. I promised myself that we'd have this little air-clearing chat today without my tongue ending up in your mouth.
Bella Andre
#95. He promised he'd never leave me. That we'd be friends forever."
"He was foolish to promise such things,
Jen Wylie
#96. Arin pulled her onto his lap. He held her shaking form, tucked his face into the crook of her cold neck as she sobbed against him. He murmured that he loved her more than he could say. He promised that he would always choose her first.
Marie Rutkoski
#97. God's Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He's promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He's told you.
Charles Stanley
#98. do not want you to become lazy, but to imitates those who through faith and patiencet inherit what has been promised.u
Anonymous
#99. Truth is ... we all will die someday. None of our days are promised in anyway. But by choosing to live great, helping others along our way ... will help brighten humanity each and everyday!
Timothy Pina
#100. The Hurt Artist is a riveting memoir by Shane Niemeyer that takes us on a raw, unedited life journey that includes the struggles of an addict trying to find peace and the joy and journey to every triathlete's promised land: Kona, Hawaii!
Jason Peter
