Promises Quotes

1151 Promises quotes by 822 unique authors

Today While the blossoms still cling to the vine I'll taste your strawberries I'll drink your sweet wine A million tomorrows shall all pass away… — John Denver
He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would… — Megan Whalen Turner
It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and I've been all… — Anne Rice
Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor. — Emily Bronte
Her face crashes. She hasn't dealt with a single transfusion or lumbar puncture. She wasn't allowed near me for the bone-marrow transplant, but she could… — Jenny Downham
It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow,… — Barbara Kingsolver
I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers… — Lucille Clifton
We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone,… — Joanne Harris
Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break… — Jonathan Lethem
Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You… — Diane Duane
(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out) — Zadie Smith
...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty,… — Josephine Baker
She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets. — Susanna Clarke
In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love.… — Paulo Coelho
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently. — John Irving
But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards. — Sherman Alexie
Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with… — Rick Warren
I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are… — Paul Simon
My favorite six letter word is always because it promises so much. My favorite five letter word is never because it insists on contradicting the… — Kate DiCamillo
I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely… — Haruki Murakami
And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises. — Ernest Hemingway
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of… — Paul Valery
I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines. — Alice Sebold
I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents' promiise. This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing... But later, she will… — Amy Tan
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the… — James G. Frazer

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