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...

If there is one thing I can promise, that I can guarantee, it is not that I can protect my other allies from the same fate as Sage, it is not that I will not...

Even if we have grown so far apart that we don’t recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this block of time, and what do you think about that?

Don’t underestimate your tears. They have the power to strengthen your commitment to your life’s purpose and to direct you towards your goal. So, when you cry because of the people who mock or taunt...

Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise.

When you adapt to someone, they become a part of your routine, a part of you. And when they’re taken away, you feel a bit lost. No matter how much you think it won’t affect...

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort...

Keep all your promises, don’t take what doesn’t belong to you, and always look after those less fortunate than yourself, and you’ll do well in the world.

Mr. Rawlings is a man of his word. The problem was, he made two different promises and he felt honored to keep them both. He hoped that by fulfilling one, in a different than expected...

Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can’t promise you’ll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don’t try.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Pain of the past never goes away, you just find a way to deal with it. And in the future……. all the promise it holds…. that’s what keeps you moving forward, and out of the...

God’s promises are great and he never fails to reveal it every single moment.

A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?

Honesty is all I’ve got,” she said finally, speaking in a low voice. “I don’t have family. I don’t have beauty, or a man. I don’t have money, and I sure as hell don’t have...

Resolutions are most often empty promises for those who have an abundance of dreams, but refuse to wake up and live them.

There it is again. Promises. They used to hold such high value when I was younger. Now they just bore into my heart like a knife just waiting to twist. I brush the sand from...

You’re beautiful, Jenna. i’m a man and I’m afraid to admit when I’m lucky enough to look at someone as beautiful as you.

Trust is the residue of promises fulfilled.

saturated & silent… i stand beneath your blackest cloud, absorbing all i can of the pain you felt.

Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them …

I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.

In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.

All I know is, being away from you……makes it hard to breathe. I miss you so much

Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was...

Never give up on walking right. Something you have to remember is that God’s fulfilled promises take patience and faith! Having faith believes in not what you SEE but what you BELIEVE.

I don’t want to make promises I can’t keep.

Promises, like gardens need weeding from time to time to produce healthy results.

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

Just easy. Life feels like it’s always hard. There’s never a calm way to get through it, to just breathe. Every day brings the same challenges, the same routines…the same everything. And as much as...

Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.”Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

The promises you speak over your children can take on the weight of destiny.

Never break a promise to an animal. They’re like babies—they won’t understand.

Promises hold no real value, What matters the most is not to loose yourself while fulfilling promises for others.

She was always looking for guarantees in a world of none.

How very surprising. Didn’t you just make a promise and ask me to trust your word? Really, Arin. You must sort out your lies and your truths or even you won’t know which is which”Silence....

Because I fuckin’ love you Mia…That didn’t come out exactly as I’d planned, but it is the truth. I’m in love with you…

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

A politician’s word is like a thick tree branch, and the people are all hanging on it. Well, I’ve got noose for you, politicians won’t keep their word, but they will keep you hanging.

The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until...

It’s strange how people give up on you within weeks of promising that they will always be there..and it’s just sad that promises are destined to breakand when you had finally believed in that one...

Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.

Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.

Right, of course.But you keep the promise anyway. That’swhat love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?

I heard you were a player , okay , lets play a game.We’ll flirt, play fights, talk 24/7, say goodmorning and goodnight every day, give each other nicknames, hang out, talk on the phone for...

O, that’s a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely,

How many ghosts might return to the promenade, haunted by the echoes of those promises, perhaps eager to catch a glimpse of what could have been? Would they laugh at the survivors shuffling about in...

When I say ‘I won’t hurt you’, it’s a promise, which can and will be kept but it does not come from me without a breakdown of what it means.It does not mean we will...