Quotes About Promise

#1. In the square, as they came out, a suspended mass of gasoline exhaust cooked slowly in the July sun. It was a terrible thing - unlike pure heat it held no promise of rural escape by suggested only roads choked with the same four asthma.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. Sometimes the contract to forget is as important as any promise to remember

M.L. Stedman

#3. We're here together. We'll get him back. I promise you," Eve said. "Merkin has no idea I'm with you. I've practiced killing for years, and tonight I'm going to use everything I've learned to save Cole. Do you believe me?

Debra Anastasia

#4. I will not be in here for ever, I promise. All metaphors need to come up for air. When I can bear no more of separation, when I have learnt all that absence can teach me of desire, the walls will shimmer and I will step out of the mirage, into your arms, to lose myself and find myself.

Kamila Shamsie

#5. A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

Mark Twain

#6. And it's a sad song, Todd, but it's also a promise. I'll never deceive you and I'll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it's true.

Patrick Ness

#7. Teachers loved to say people had potential; that's what teachers did to keep themselves from getting canned. What were they supposed to say-I'm sorry, your kid has no promise whatsoever? She's utterly mediocre in every way?

Anne Ursu

#8. Our good God, our overflowing God, our God of yes and amen, has always been able to promise far more than we are able to believe.

Douglas Wilson

#9. In societies where incomes and educational levels are low, it is often far easier to get supporters to the polls based on a promise of an individual benefit rather than a broad programmatic agenda.

Francis Fukuyama

#10. I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise.

Jennifer Gilmore

#11. Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.

Criss Jami

#12. Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He'd leave you alone if he thought you were going to live in mediocrity. If you keep pressing on toward your promise, through faith and patience, you will get there.

Joel Osteen

#13. Ah Myrna, I think I've loved you since I took my first breath." ...
"Don't be afraid, Myr. I love you more than I could ever put into words, but I won't fail you. I promise. This love, our love, is forever.

Olivia Cunning

#14. I got you, love." I rubbed my face along hers and pressed her as tight as I could to my body. "You're mine. You're safe." It was my promise to her, and my declaration of war on whatever demons that dared keep her from me. Keep her from my love.

Lucian Bane

#15. A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.

C.S. Lewis

#16. Trent has kept his promise. He makes me smile every day.

K.A. Tucker

#17. Sometimes in life, a fog sets in and you don't know which way is the right direction. Every voice may tell you it's not going to happen, but God has placed a promise in your heart. Refuse to listen to those voices. Keep believing.

Joel Osteen

#18. There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.

Adrian Rogers

#19. After all, what is a kiss? A vow made at closer range, a more precise promise, a confession that contains its own proof, a seal placed on a pact that has already been signed; it's a secret told to the mouth rather than to the ear.

Edmond Rostand

#20. He was pouring vinegar onto the hot grill, where it sputtered and foamed and hissed. The air was full of it for a few seconds, enough to get everyone at the counter teared up, but just as quickly it was gone, with an implicit promise that anything so intensely horrible would be design pass swiftly.

Richard Russo

#21. May today be the best birthday of your life, I give you my heart as the most precious gift I can give you and I promise I always will love you.

Auliq Ice

#22. When you move as much as I have ... you know how it ends. You promise to stay in touch with people, but it doesn't work out. It never does. And you forgot about what the friendship used to be like, why you liked that person. And I hated it. And I just didn't want to do it again. Not with you.

Morgan Matson

#23. When anyone gives a promise, then such should be kept, and so under any circumstance.

Billy Meier

#24. When he makes you a promise, he is assuring you that however the world changes, his word will not change. Thus, he is creating the future inside the present. Even more: he is creating the present inside the present. He is establishing on stationary point amid the infinite flux of events.

Stephen Mitchell

#25. Christ provides us with settings that promise stillness. He guides us into havens that encourage comfort. He desires us to seek and secure moments of rest so that our souls might be renewed.

Baker Publishing Group

#26. 2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

Baldwin Spencer

#27. Stillness fell upon them, as weighty as a promise. The two of them walked in silence, along the still,

moonlit landscape, and through the drowsing trees.

Debotri Dhar

#28. Stay the night, don't stay the night. I'm not going to read anything into it, okay? If you want to hang out, then I'm around. Your call. I'm not going to boil your pet bunny or tell Facebook you have a small dick, I promise.

Amy Andrews

#29. God is under no manner of obligation to show mercy to any natural man, whose heart is not turned to God: and that a man can challenge nothing either in absolute justice, or by free promise, from any thing he does before he has believed on Jesus Christ, or has true repentance begun in him.

Jonathan Edwards

#30. For every promise, there is a price to pay ... If the promise is clear, the price is easy ...

Jim Rohn

#31. The Polish people be allowed to have a voice in the kind of govt. they want. Under the Yalta Pact the Soviets agreed they & others would be allowed to do this. The Soviets have never honored that promise.

Ronald Reagan

#32. Her legacy was not--would not be--this disease. Phyllis Marie Unold Avery told us stories...It is my promise to her that for as long as I am able, I will recognize, restory, and remember.

Nancy A. Dafoe

#33. I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.

Shane Carruth

#34. That's like promise.At least for tonight.In sickness,in health.In good times and in bad.For richer,for poorer.Till dawn do us apart.

John Green

#35. For a trader - hell, for any American - being empty of promise is an abomination.

Katya G. Cohen

#36. You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for them.

Jonah Hill

#37. If any has stumbled in his journey, there is a way back. The process is called repentance. Our Savior died to provide you and me that blessed gift. Though the path is difficult, the promise is real: 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow' (Isaiah 1:18).

Thomas S. Monson

#38. Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise.

Philip Jose Farmer

#39. Love would never b a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion.

Jack Canfield

#40. There is a lot to celebrate about that little Babe who was laid in a manger. Christians celebrate Christmas because they are thankful for the promise of salvation, which was delivered in human flesh and named Jesus.

Monica Johnson

#41. It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.

William Bennett

#42. Memory enhancement self-help programs abound and promise improved memory performance by the utilization of any number of seemingly unique techniques focused on the context of how information is encoded.

David Perlmutter

#43. I promise to be there for you. I'll catch you if you fall.

Kimberly Sabatini

#44. A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.

Gary Zukav

#45. When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.

Charles Hodge

#46. To ask her to please promise me she isn't walking out on me. Please out my mind at rest and tell me she's not leaving.

Lisa Reardon

#47. You can't live the rest of your days feeling bitter and spiteful," David continued. "It'll eat you up inside and keep you from enjoying the good things that will come your way later on. And there will be good things, I promise you that.

Julianne MacLean

#48. ...I thought, God, I promise to stay a virgin, just please don't let anyone probe me.

Stephanie Tromly

#49. What did I learn in my travels? In whatever foreign country I visited I met dreamers who longed to reach America and its promise of an enriched life so I knew we had a country rich in opportunity, but I also met those brilliant Jews already in America who had been denied that promise.

James A. Michener

#50. I promise. I promise, you have my heart, and you have me. You will always have me.

Katy Evans

#51. This is what games do: they promise us that we can repair a personal inadequacy - an inadequacy that they produce in us in the first place.

Jesper Juul

#52. What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.

L. Neil Smith

#53. At least I died trying. And I won.I never gave them away. I never hurt them. I did my best to find them. I tried to keep my promise ... I die for them.

Stephenie Meyer

#54. Promise you'll stay with me as long as you want to, but not a moment longer.

Lisa Mantchev

#55. The unknown is a gift, a promise, a journey worth more than its destination.

J.K. Rock

#56. The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.

Paulo Coelho

#57. I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

Johann Lamont

#58. When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

Karl Malone

#59. Neil started for the door, but Kevin put a hand on his shoulder to stop him. "Neil."
There was a world of regret in that name, but it was a promise, too.

Nora Sakavic

#60. Go home to Ravka, Nina. Be free, as you were meant to be. Be a warrior, as you always have been. Just save some mercy for my people. There has to be a Fjerda worth saving. Promise me

Leigh Bardugo

#61. Don't tell me, don't promise me, surprise me!

Nadina Boun

#62. Commitment is a promise to a cause. Being non-committal is a promise to catastrophe.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#63. As they came together in a rush of steel and shadow, he could hear Lyanna screaming. "Eddard!" she called. A storm of rose petals blew across a blood-streaked sky, as blue as the eyes of death. "Lord Eddard," Lyanna called again. "I promise," he whispered. "Lya, I promise

George R R Martin

#64. All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.

Dov Davidoff

#65. Children believe what you promise. They are excited and expectant. Your nature must be like theirs: bold, daring, unafraid and eager to experience the victory God has already assured.

Thea Harris

#66. How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

Dan Savage

#67. How could any woman endure a life of misery with such a cheap promise of appreciation after her death?

Carolyn Jessop

#68. All is yours. Do not go seeking for that which you are. Appropriate it, claim it, assume it. Everything depends upon your concept of yourself. That which you do not claim as true of yourself, cannot be realized by you. The promise is

Neville Goddard

#69. There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

Wernher Von Braun

#70. Performance should be made square with promise.

Theodore Roosevelt

#71. I just try to look into the mirror, and work on the things that I wasn't doing, and I made a promise to myself that after the season, I will look at the same mirror, and say that you did everything you could

Allen Iverson

#72. Canada was built around a very simple premise. A promise that you can work hard and succeed and build a future for yourselves and your kids, and that future for your kids would be better than the one you had.

Justin Trudeau

#73. There is a love so fierce it cannot be measured. A heart so strong it will never slow. There is a promise so sure it can never lie. And we promise that love forever. Forever and always

Jay McLean

#74. The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

Herbert Croly

#75. My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

Masiela Lusha

#76. I promise to stand by you, to hold you up when you're about to fall, and to always keep you safe. I never believed there was a girl out there for me. Until I met you. You changed everything. And I never want to live without you. I love you more than I ever thought possible.

J. Sterling

#77. Beginnings are pitiless things; they are full of promise and hope that they never have to realise.

Dianne Touchell

#78. The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?

Rumi

#79. The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

John F. Kennedy

#80. Full to the brim with hope and love and joy, she watched the little light bulb shining like a promise in the night.

Jeanne DuPrau

#81. Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.

Rick Riordan

#82. All you need is twenty seconds of insane courage and I promise you something great will come of it.

Matt Damon

#83. I, Brody, promise to love you, Lucy and Piper, just as much as I love your mommy. I promise to love you and protect you and always take care of you, no matter what. From this day forward, you will always and forever be my Twinkies. I also promise to always kill all the spiders.

Beth Ehemann

#84. I slipped my hands down his back and into his boxers. "I hope this gets old soon. I don't see myself ever getting tired of you."
"Promise?" he asked, smiling.

Jamie McGuire

#85. When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#86. Look at me, Kacey." I do. I look up and let myself sink into those blue eyes, so full of worry and pain and desire.
"I'll make you whole again, Kacey. I promise you, I will," he whispers. And then his mouth covers mine.

K.A. Tucker

#87. The Horror of the world was that thousands of evils fell upon innocent people, and no one was punished and with great promise there was nothing but pain and desire Children mutilated to form a choir of seraphim. Their song was a cry to heaven the sky was not listening.

Anne Rice

#88. But I can't leave, not yet. I'll stay with her until sunrise. If I brace my feet, I won't slide. I can rest my cheek on the roof tile and still see her. Pacing. Pulling her hair.
"I'll fix you," I tell her. "I promise."
Even though I don't know how.
It's better than good-bye.

Pam Bachorz

#89. We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven't seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.

David Fincher

#90. There can be no doubt that the blessing, of which believers are heirs, is justification by faith; and that the promise, according to which they are heirs of this blessing, is the gospel promise made to Abraham.

Adoniram Judson

#91. I made a promise to Michael Brown's parents that I would do everything to bring all of the resources of the federal government to this investigation so that it is transparent; so that it is a viable investigation, and we get to the truth.

William Lacy Clay Jr.

#92. I promise if you keep searching for everything beautiful in this world, you will eventually become it.

Tyler Kent

#93. Come on and eat with him. I promise, I won't let him kiss you again.

Suzanne Collins

#94. Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.

John Wooden

#95. The kiss blew Zoe's socks off. It was so easy to get lost in the promise of what he offered; no wondering, wishing, worrying ... Wrapped up tight in him as she was, she felt tempted.

Jill Shalvis

#96. Don't do that again! Not ever again!" I told him.
"I should say the same to you," he said. I could feel his breath, warm on my neck.
"Promise me!" I demanded.
"I ... I promise."
"I can't lose you.

Kristen Simmons

#97. A wedding is a ceremony where two people promise to love each other forever, no matter what. This was something the Designer intended from the beginning of time. Marriage is a picture of his love for the people he created.

Krista McGee

#98. But Squirrelpaw had the best idea." Squirrelpaw ducked her head, looking embarrassed. "If ever any of you tell the cats back home that I purred at a Twoleg," she mewed through gritted teeth, "I'll turn you into crow-food, and that's a promise.

Erin Hunter

#99. But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end..

Sarah Dessen

#100. Is there any reason why you should not have faith in God? Has God ever broken one of His promises? I defy any infidel or unbeliever to place a finger on a single promise of God ever made and failed to fulfill.

Dwight L. Moody