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Monday, July 1st, 2024
the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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Quotations regarding 'Promise'

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Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.
Morgan Freeman, American Actor (1937-  )
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost, American Poet (1874-1963)
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost, American Poet (1874-1963)
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman (1608-1661)
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman (1608-1661)
Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.
Richard Le Gallienne, English Poet
I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.
Michael Gambon, British Actor (1940-  )
What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.
Peter Garrett, Australian Musician (1953-  )
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
Martha Gellhorn, American Journalist (1908-1998)
In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen, British Businessman
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen, British Businessman
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen, British Businessman
Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.
Delphine de Girardin, French Novelist (1804-1855)
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet (1749-1832)
I've had my ring since I was 12 years old. But for me it's not something I want to go around saying, 'Hey, look what I have', It's a promise I made to myself and God. I think some people misinterpret that as a trend and think everyone's getting one.
Selena Gomez, American Actress (1992-  )
We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.
Thomas Goodwin, English Clergyman (1600-1680)
It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.
Thomas Goodwin, English Clergyman (1600-1680)
And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.
Thomas Goodwin, English Clergyman (1600-1680)
We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.
Thomas Goodwin, English Clergyman (1600-1680)
If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.
Bob Greene, American Journalist (1947-  )
 
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