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.
A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.
As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
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?
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 thou...
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.
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...
I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.
I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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 prom...
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.
It's amazing how little you need to keep starving people strung along.
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.
Sometimes people don’t understandthe 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’swhat love is. Love is keeping the...
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.
I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.
O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon,That monthly changes in her circle orb,Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.
Have you noticed ... that he actually hadn't made any promises to you?
Men love pleasure, but women wish for purposeful promise.
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