Swear to bears!

A giant! A giant in the forest! And we’re supposed to give him English lessons! Always assuming, of course, we can get past the herd of murderous centaurs on the way in and out! I...

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

Liars make the best promises.

Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards…Honestly, Kell, I’d nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be.”Foolhardy?” Kelsier asked with a laugh. “that wasn’t foolhardy – that was just a small diversion....

No one, by swearing, makes themselves an ounce more honest; any more than a man makes himself wealthy by counting his gold. Oaths may make a liar a liar yet again, having lied about the...

God is trustworthy—He always keeps His promises.

I think we fulfilled all the promises we made at the start of the competition. After our win over Portugal in the first match, I said all of Europe would be talking about Greece. Now,...

Keep a list, either on paper or in your smartphone, of the things you promise to do for people. Be sure to follow through in a timely manner.

I promise.

This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.

Attraction is often mistaken to be love. If you’re in a relationship doesn’t necessarily mean you’re in love. And what do you do when that ephemeral attraction is long gone? What people call break-ups are...

if beauty is a promise of happiness then keeping a promise is the most beautiful beauty.

The stars are brilliant at this time of night and I wander these streets like a ritual I don’t dare to break for darling, the times are quite glorious.I left him by the water’s edge,still...

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

If I say I’ll help you I’ll help you. If I say I’ll kill you I’ll kill you. Everything else is ripples of maybe.

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.