The Promise Quotes

The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.

Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.

So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.

Quality and service are important, if you want to make a sale. If you want to keep a customer for life, keep your promises.

If you ponder the scriptures and begin to do what you covenanted with God to do, I can promise you that you will feel more love for God and more of His love for you.

The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment.

The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.

The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.

I want to make change, but I've already made change. I will continue to make change. I'm not just running on a promise of change.

I think there's where we can enlist the veterans service organizations, the veterans of America, because, yes, let's fix the V.A., but we will never let it be privatized, and that is a promise.

I am not going to make promises I can't keep. I am not going to talk about big ideas like single-payer and then not level with people about how much it will cost.

I can't compete with making promises you can't keep.

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

If you'll promise not to cry, Baby, I will kiss you by-and-by—Maybe! Though you're six feet three, You will always be Nothing but a Baby, dear, to me.

We promise you that we will not cede a single part of Palestine, we will not cede Jerusalem, we will continue to fight and we will not lay down our arms.

We are not men, but promises of men.

The issues in America are so big, and the problems are enormously complicated. But I am incredibly confident in Donald Trump to be able to execute on his promise to the people who elected him.

She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will ask you to change.

I promise to love you forever in this life and wherever we go in the afterlife, because I know I can't go on in any life unless you're in it too.

G'on now.' he murmured with that Southern drawl. 'Lie on back and let me take care of you. I promise to go slow...real slow.' - Issac Rothe, Crave

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

Making fake promises while wearing a fancy dress... that isn't enough. Promises take more work than that.

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.

Jane-Sweetie, we've talked about your weight-" my mother began. I'm only eight years old," I said. "How about I promise to be anorexic later?

Anyone who promises you something that you have not earned is seeking to enslave you.

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.

Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it.

I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.

I just want you inside, baby, we don't need to talk about promises.

Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

First there's the promise ring, then the engagement ring, then the wedding ring... soon after... comes Suffer...ring!

[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it.

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

No company can promise an end date, but if you have multiple debts, the first one should be settled within a year.

I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future.

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.

I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.

I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I get lonely? I promise not to scare you.

It's scary how easy promises were broken.

Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced

Casting is so important, with any film you do. You have to get actors that you believe will fulfill the promise of the characters that are on the page.

He laughs, sucking his lip ring into his mouth. "I promise I'll go easy on you." A naughty feeling dances inside me. "What if I don't want you to go easy on me?