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He promised us that everything would be OK. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be O...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

[Martin Luther King] said that little black boys and little black girls would be able to join hands ...

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The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

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Molly RingwaldWhen it Happens to You

The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they ...

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

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

And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their li...

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Tell them I came, and no one answered,That I kept my word," he said.Never the least stir made the li...

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Walter de la MareThe Listeners and Other Poems

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

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

I am stuffing your mouth with yourpromises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

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

Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.

The book of Revelation may be difficult and demanding to read, yet it is the only biblical book whos...

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The book of Revelation may be difficult and demanding to read, yet it is the only biblical book whos...

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The book of Revelation may be difficult and demanding to read, yet it is the only biblical book whos...

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The book of Revelation may be difficult and demanding to read, yet it is the only biblical book whos...

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The book of Revelation may be difficult and demanding to read, yet it is the only biblical book whos...

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The book of Revelation may be difficult and demanding to read, yet it is the only biblical book whos...

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The book of Revelation may be difficult and demanding to read, yet it is the only biblical book whos...

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The book of Revelation may be difficult and demanding to read, yet it is the only biblical book whos...

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Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly fo...

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as the shadows assumeshapesI fight the slowretreatnowmy once-promisedwindlingdwindlingnowlighting ne...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

it is so dark now with the sadness ofpeoplethey were tricked, they were taught to expect theultimate...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome w...

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In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to ...

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God promises you a way out. Find that way out, and take it.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!And yet they seem alive and quiveringAgainst my tremulous...

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It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God...

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From the essay on Love, in which he describes as a wilderness experience his daily visits with his w...

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Frederick BuechnerA Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to th...

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

No one would argue that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Goliath Corporation. They helped us to reb...

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I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, ye...

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Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this lif...

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Jodi PicoultSongs of the Humpback Whale

It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and ackno...

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Sometimes people don’t understandthe promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.Isaac shot...

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Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said."Right, of cou...

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