Promise Quotes - Page 46

Seriously, just buy the [expletive deleted] book. I promise you'll like it. Unless you're [expletive deleted].

In another life, I would be your girl, we keep all our promises, the us against the world, In another life, I would make you stay, So I don't have to say you were the one that got away the one that got away

We won't be having an affair." I stare dumbly, certain I just heard an organ in my body crack in my chest. His hands clamp around me, and he crushes me to his body as he slides his nose along the shell of my ear. "When I take you, you'll be mine," he says, a soft promise in my ear.

An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal promise of his craft.

As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

The babies are amazing ... They begin each day all warm and sleepy, smelling of promise.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.

I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've had to jump. I want you to know I did save you. Not when it counted, of course. But after that. Every night after that. I'd see it all again, do something different. Faster or more clever, you know? Dozens of times, lots of different ways ...Every night I save you.

The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in.

Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

There's one big difference between me and the others - I won't take every last dime of the surplus and spend it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy. I'll use the bulk of the surplus to secure Social Security far into the future to keep our promise to the greatest generation.

Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.

We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so from honest conviction. But we are called on to trust--to trust ourselves to God, being sure that He will lead us right--to keep close to Him--and to trust the promises which He whispers through our conscience; this we can do, and we ought to do.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.

How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.

A secret is a kind of promise.... It can also be a prison.

There can be no compromise with war.

I'm sorry I can't give you the normal life you wanted, but I promise to adore you every day for the rest of your new one.

Lasting change is a series of compromises.

A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.