promises

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4d7d059	As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.	promises	Georgette Heyer
4503666	"Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?"	love truth the-fault-in-our-stars promises	John Green
b82512c	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.	sempre life inspirational risks promises	J.M. Darhower
33f3541	Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies--they won't understand.	promises	Tamora Pierce
b554cf6	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.	percy-jackson promises	Rick Riordan
a293024	A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.	inspirational promises	Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
6f7d776	I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.	magazine promises	Alice Sebold
5a92c4b	O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.	love promises	William Shakespeare
47b1dcc	"I don't believe him," said Hermione in a very unsteady voice, the moment they were out of earshot of Hagrid. "I don't believe him. I don't believe him. . . ." "Calm down," said Harry. "Calm down!" she said feverishly. "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 -- don't -- -- him!"	humor centaurs duty promises	J.K. Rowling
1ef911e	What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.	words promises	Haruki Murakami
02c578c	I'm tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.	truth promises	Sidney Sheldon
39206fb	Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.	promises	John Green
71e15f7	To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died literally chosen death before breaking his word.	promises	Lisa Kleypas
84ad60f	I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.	environmental-factors promises promise	Jeff VanderMeer
77d2b56	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 are as meaningless as promises.	present memories past west promises	Wade Davis
c075eda	"Until you get the measure of your own soul, Jim, don't be quick to condemn a priest, or anyone else for that matter. I'm not scolding you, sweetheart," she said hurriedly. "It's just that, until you've been there, you can't know what it's like to hold yourself to promises you made in good faith a long time ago. Do you hang in there, or cut your losses? Soldier on, or admit defeat and try to make the best of things?" She'd looked a little sheepish then and admitted, "You know, I used to be a real hardass about stuff like this. No retreat, no surrender! But now? Jimmy, I honestly don't know if the world would be better or worse if we all held ourselves to the vows of our youth."	promises	Mary Doria Russell
205a676	"A few times in my life, I have been manipulated by the sexual power of a woman. "Could you help with my assignment?" I'll do it for you. "I don't know why they've given me middle seat." Take mine. "I thought the trains would still be running." Let me drive your home. No promises, no offers, nothing expected in return."	sexual-power taking-advantage promises	Graeme Simsion
2223712	He promised us that everything would be OK. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be OK. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.	promises	Jonathan Safran Foer
c65fb76	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?	marriage life vows sharing promises	Jodi Picoult
e6cb3ce	It's amazing how little you need to keep starving people strung along.	pollitics oratory rhetoric promises	Kim Stanley Robinson
da9ecac	"To love somebody is not just a strong feeling -- it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise," writes psychologist Erich Fromm. "If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision?"	marriage love promises	Ada Calhoun
cea1c33	It's better not to make a promise than to make one you can't keep.	truth wisdom keeping-promises landry pearl-in-the-mist v-c-andrews promises	V.C. Andrews
cb9188d	People are never who you think they are, that it was necessary to get a complete background check on a person before you made any promises.	promises	Jodi Picoult
a3a6adc	The world promises you so much...and leaves you empty. God's promises are for real and forever.	world books god promises-in-the-dark jesus-christ promises	Beth Moore Jones
d5ec97b	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.	promising taoism promises promise	L.M. Montgomery
b9f9e54	For most of us, the first experience of love, even if it doesn't work out--perhaps especially when it doesn't work out--promises that here is the thing that validates, that vindicates life. And though subsequent years might alter this view, until some of us give up on it altogether, when love first strikes, there's nothing like it, is there? Agreed?	love vindication vindication-across-time promises	Julian Barnes

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

Georgette Heyer

4503666

"Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?"

love truth the-fault-in-our-stars promises

John Green

b82512c

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.

sempre life inspirational risks promises

J.M. Darhower

33f3541

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

promises

Tamora Pierce

b554cf6

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.

percy-jackson promises

Rick Riordan

a293024

A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.

inspirational promises

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

6f7d776

I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.

magazine promises

Alice Sebold

5a92c4b

O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

love promises

William Shakespeare

47b1dcc

"I don't believe him," said Hermione in a very unsteady voice, the moment they were out of earshot of Hagrid. "I don't believe him. I don't believe him. . . ." "Calm down," said Harry. "Calm down!" she said feverishly. "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 -- don't -- -- him!"

humor centaurs duty promises

J.K. Rowling

1ef911e

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

words promises

Haruki Murakami

02c578c

I'm tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

truth promises

Sidney Sheldon

39206fb

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

promises

John Green

71e15f7

To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died literally chosen death before breaking his word.

promises

Lisa Kleypas

84ad60f

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.

environmental-factors promises promise

Jeff VanderMeer

77d2b56

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 are as meaningless as promises.

present memories past west promises

Wade Davis

c075eda

"Until you get the measure of your own soul, Jim, don't be quick to condemn a priest, or anyone else for that matter. I'm not scolding you, sweetheart," she said hurriedly. "It's just that, until you've been there, you can't know what it's like to hold yourself to promises you made in good faith a long time ago. Do you hang in there, or cut your losses? Soldier on, or admit defeat and try to make the best of things?" She'd looked a little sheepish then and admitted, "You know, I used to be a real hardass about stuff like this. No retreat, no surrender! But now? Jimmy, I honestly don't know if the world would be better or worse if we all held ourselves to the vows of our youth."

promises

Mary Doria Russell

205a676

"A few times in my life, I have been manipulated by the sexual power of a woman. "Could you help with my assignment?" I'll do it for you. "I don't know why they've given me middle seat." Take mine. "I thought the trains would still be running." Let me drive your home. No promises, no offers, nothing expected in return."

sexual-power taking-advantage promises

Graeme Simsion

2223712

He promised us that everything would be OK. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be OK. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

promises

Jonathan Safran Foer

c65fb76

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?

marriage life vows sharing promises

Jodi Picoult

e6cb3ce

It's amazing how little you need to keep starving people strung along.

pollitics oratory rhetoric promises

Kim Stanley Robinson

da9ecac

"To love somebody is not just a strong feeling -- it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise," writes psychologist Erich Fromm. "If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision?"

marriage love promises

Ada Calhoun

cea1c33

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

truth wisdom keeping-promises landry pearl-in-the-mist v-c-andrews promises

V.C. Andrews

cb9188d

People are never who you think they are, that it was necessary to get a complete background check on a person before you made any promises.

promises

Jodi Picoult

a3a6adc

The world promises you so much...and leaves you empty. God's promises are for real and forever.

world books god promises-in-the-dark jesus-christ promises

Beth Moore Jones

d5ec97b

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.

promising taoism promises promise

L.M. Montgomery

b9f9e54

For most of us, the first experience of love, even if it doesn't work out--perhaps especially when it doesn't work out--promises that here is the thing that validates, that vindicates life. And though subsequent years might alter this view, until some of us give up on it altogether, when love first strikes, there's nothing like it, is there? Agreed?

love vindication vindication-across-time promises

Julian Barnes