"Love is a promise; love is a souvenir."
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"Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!"
"There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept."
"No sentence can be effective if it contains facts alone. It must also contain emotion, image, logic, and promise."
"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."
"At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome."
"Don't promise twice what you can do at once."
"Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned; and I will go still further, and say that this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord had given, and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned."
"Down deep in his heart he knew that we all have the same promise of the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence that guides all things. If we want it, we only have to plug into it with the master keys of desire and trust."
"Tell of his wondrous faithfulness, And sound his power abroad; Sing the sweet promise of his grace, And the performing God."
"Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant."
"For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation."
"Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness."
"I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial."
"Magnificent promises are always to be suspected."
"Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise."
"As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has already gained bears the promise of the rising of the full-orbed sun of emancipation. The result will be not to make home less happy, but society more holy."
"The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth."
"To get a man's attention, just stand in front of the TV and don't move. He'll talk to you. I promise."
"...if we are to make significant progress on meeting these Goals and stay true to the promise the world made to build a better, fairer world for all, there is no time to lose in putting in place the necessary policies and resources needed to achieve these aims."