I am stuffing your mouth with yourpromises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a command than a promise.

Struggling transforms her captor into a Chinese finger trap. She’s suffocating. Sucking in air without relief. Her lungs expand. Contract. Expand. They fill with lies and broken promises. With despair and lost hope. Each inhale...

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.

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation’s promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.

You can live each day in the confidence of God’s promises.

They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and dominate your mind, but its better to put them bulshit people at arms...

All promise outruns performance.

People who live up to their words shouldn’t make blind promises.

Have you noticed … that he actually hadn’t made any promises to you?

[Martin Luther King] said that little black boys and little black girls would be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers. Then he reminded both those...

Ian was a good man—honest, trustworthy, loyal, and of honorable character. His desire to keep his promise to Angelle and to be a respectable servant of Harrowbeth would always take president over any personal feelings,...

as the shadows assumeshapesI fight the slowretreatnowmy once-promisedwindlingdwindlingnowlighting new cigarettespouring moredrinksit has been a beautifulfightstillis.

Stop making flamboyant promises. Earn the people’s trust first, then do more than they expect

From Orient PointThe art of living isn’t hard to muster:Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend.When someone makes you promises, don’t trust herunless they’re in the here and now, and just herwilling largesse free-handed...

I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself...

The best promises forever seem to be made by amnesiacs.

Silence is not empty or immaterial, and it is not needed to chain tame things. It often guards powers strong enough to shatter everything.

The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated...

Do not turn me intorestless watersif you cannot promiseto be my stream.

Sometimes your pledges become your problems.

It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God’s law. They must cease to rely upon their own efforts for salvation, they must trust...

It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what...

In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories...

it is so dark now with the sadness ofpeoplethey were tricked, they were taught to expect theultimate when nothing ispromisednow young girls weep alone in small roomsold men angrily swing their canes atvisions asladies comb...

Every politician has a promising career. Unfortunately, most of them do not keep those promises.

This is the truth of the world: you can spend years devoting your time and love to someone. You can take care of them willingly and happily. You can think you know them as well...

People lie. Promises are broken.” – Jason Grace

The point is, Jenna, no one is normal or perfect like that house you see across the street. Everyone suffers from their own struggles, whether they’re big or small.

Change? Start by keeping a small promise.

Life makes two promises, one, it promises to be good, and two, it promises to be bad. Cherish the good and be strong during the bad.

my love is a winter’s mistgently dissolvingthrough the windowat the nape of your neck.

If you value your words, people will not ask you to make any promises.

MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They’re just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of each other.

But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing.

I think what they’re looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the...

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.

People lie. Promises are broken.

People from context cultures tend to view personal bonds and informal agreements as far more binding than any formal contract. People from content cultures don’t believe the deal is finalized until everyone has signed on...

I also wanted you to realize that even though the pain will always be there, I’m living proof you can get past this. Right now I know it feels impossible, but one day you’ll look...

What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.

For a moment, there was silnece, and then at Brooke’s nod, the rest of the Squad, minus me, chimed in. “Yes, sir.”I said nothing. For one thing, I wasn’t exactly keen on speaking in unison,...

It’s better not to make a promise than to make one you can’t keep.

We can position ourselves to receive God’s promises, but it will take a lot of stretching, moving, breaking and changing!

No one would argue that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Goliath Corporation. They helped us to rebuild after the Second War and it should not be forgotten. Of late, however, it seems...

Can we make promises to each other, as if we were truly married? Can we swear to be true and faithful and love only each other and all those things? Because I’m in such pain,...

i promise you that i won’t promise you anymore.,,,

In this town, white politicians and black ministers seemed to go together like tears and tissues. At election time, the pols got religion and came looking for the blessings of black ministers as a way...