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“In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for song. But in our towns and fields there are few memory haunted places. Here we stand in roaring city streets, on steaming coal heaps, in the shadow of factories from which come only the grinding roar of machines. We do not sing but mutter in the darkness. Our lips are cracked with dust and with the heat of furnaces. We but mutter and feel our way toward the promise of song.”

“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.”

“Plans turn promises into results and dreams into realities.”

Dream Reality Turns Culture Results Plans Promise Service Culture Dream Reality

Author:Ron Kaufman

“Heather A. Slomski's stories are downright addictive. I kept promising myself to turn off the light after just one more, and then breaking that promise, beguiled by her cool, measured prose and by the surprises, tensions, and uncanny encounters simmering beneath its elegant surface.”

Stories Light Turns Promise Surprise Surface Tension Encounters Just One Prose Elegant Turn Off Uncanny Heathers

Author:Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

“Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.”

Thinking Country Turns Fall Given Fire Tree Promise Creating Capable Europe Seasons Brown Autumn Yellow Continents Frost Creating Beauty Portents

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow promises should be toned down before the public turns away in disgust. And if that should happen, our civilization might not survive.”

Ifs Knows Should Might Happens Science Turns Know How Tomorrow Promise Civilization Computer Mathematics Instruments Faster Paradise Disgusting Pretension

Book:Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy

Source: Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy

“I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.”

“From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading to your kids now will repay itself a million-fold later, not only because they love you for reading to them, but also because, years later, when they’re gone and miles away, those quiet evenings, when you were tucked in with them, everything quiet but the sound of the page-turns, will, seem to you, I promise...... sacred.”

Years Two Seems Kids Turns Reading Parent Sound Millions Gone Wonderful Minutes Love You Perspective Promise Quiet Pages Sacred Instinct Miles Evening Folds I Promise Miles Away

Author:George Saunders

“Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.”

Way Turns Promise Each Day

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.”

People Seems America Turns Levels Destiny Promise Lifetime Extraordinary Expected Inevitable Extraordinary Things

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Prayer can truly change your life. For it turns your attention away from yourself and directs your mind and your heart toward the Lord. If we look only at ourselves, with our own limitations and sins, we quickly give way to sadness and discouragement. But if we keep our eyes fixed on the Lord, then our hearts are filled with hope, our minds are washed n the light of truth, and we come to know the fullness of the Gospel with all is promise and life.”

Ifs Knows Way Giving Mind Looks Heart Light Eye Turns Prayer Sin Attention Lord Sadness Promise Filled Limitation Fixed Changing Your Life Fullness Discouragement

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Don't let your fears become boxes that enclose you. Open them out, feel them and turn them into the greatest courage you are capable of. I promise you, nothing will go wrong. But if you live by your fears, everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong and you won't even have done the 'Funky Chicken'.”

Ifs Feels Done Turns Promise Capable Boxes Live By Chickens I Promise Edinburgh Funky

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never turn into that kind of person. My family also helps to keep me grounded. Whenever I get a 'diva moment,' as they like to call it, they let me know it and say, 'Stop acting like a diva!' They're pretty good at it, too.”

People Knows Kind Persons Made Moments Helping Turns Acting Promise My Family Let Me Grounded Despised

Author:Jackie Evancho

“I'd like to turn the whole Jesus story around and look at it from a different vantage point, to consider that he was a human being who achieved such promise of humanity that he entered into what I think God is: mainly, the power of life, the power of love and what Paul Tillich, a German theologian of the mid-twentieth century, called "the ground of all being."”

Thinking Humans Looks Different Whole Stories Humanity Turns Jesus Human Beings Century Promise Theologian Twentieth Century Power Of Love Vantage Point

Author:John Shelby Spong

“We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.”

Giving Doe Done Past Turns Pleasure Grace Gratitude Promise Ethics Delight Driven Contemplating Transforming Debtors Promise Of The Future

Author:John Piper

“Her face crashes. She hasn't dealt with a single transfusion or lumbar puncture. She wasn't allowed near me for the bone-marrow transplant, but she could have been there for any number of diagnoses, and wasn't. Even her promises to visit more often have faded away with Christmas. It's her turn to taste some reality.”

Has Beens Reality Faces Turns Numbers Promise Taste Bones Crash Could Have Been Diagnosis Faded Marrow Transplants Puncture Bone Marrow

Author:Jenny Downham

“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ...Hope sweetens the memory of experiences well loved. It tempers our troubles to our growth and our strength. It befriends us in the dark hours, excites us in bright ones. It lends promise to the future and purpose to the past. It turns discouragement to determination. Samuel Smiles”

Wells Past Purpose Turns Growth Hours Memories Dark Behinds Sun Trouble Journey Promise Shadow Determination Casts Burden Temper Discouragement Dark Hours

Author:Samuel Smiles

“Smoke You stand infront of me, pretending to be solid, but you are nothing more than smoke and mirors. You said you'd never leave, that you would care for us forever, but now you claim you cannot stay? That you've been called away. When you go, who will i turn to when it all crashes down? Tell me who. Then tell me, how I can believe anone again, if all your promises have been lies.”

Ifs Believe Has Beens Said I Can Care Lying Turns Forever Promise Claims Smoke Pretending Crash

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“Your going to be fine.I promise you."- with my finger I made an X sign on my chest-"cross my heart and hope to die,you have my word.You don't deserve to live like that,and we're going to turn things around.”

Heart Made Dies Turns Fine My Heart Promise Deserve Crosses Fingers Chests I Promise

Book:A Man Named Dave

Source: A Man Named Dave

“She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.”

Turns Doors Broken Promise Traps Arches Broken Promises

Author:Jane Austen

“Not a frog, I hope?” he asked…She shook her head. “No. And if it was I wouldn’t kiss it, I promise you. I might kiss a prince if I could be sure he’d turn into a frog, but not the other way around.”

Ifs Way Might Turns Promise Kissing If I Could Frogs I Promise

Author:Eva Ibbotson

“One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.' 'I'm not sure a book has ever changed me,' said Will. 'Well there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep-' 'Only the very weak minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,' said Tessa, determined not to let him run wildly off with the conversation.”

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“She is Melusina, the water goddess, and she is found in hidden springs and waterfalls in any forest in Christendom, even in those as far away as Greece. (...) A man may love her if he keeps her secret and lets her alone when she wants to bathe, and she may love him in return until he breaks his word, as men always do, and she sweeps him into the depths with her fishy tail, and turns his faithless blood to water. The tragedy of Melusina, whatever language tells it, whatever tune it sings, is that a man will always promise more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.”

Ifs Men Want May Turns Found Language Water Can Do Secret Break Blood Return Promise Spring Tragedy Depth Forests Tunes Goddess Far Away Tails Greece Waterfalls Christendom Faithless Fishy

Author:Philippa Gregory

“She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a friendly junkman, building things from the little pieces of scrap I find here and there, but my family's started to see things differently. Their personal lives are the so-called pieces of scrap I so casually pick up, and they're sick of it. More and more often their stories begin with the line "You have to swear you'll never repeat this." I always promise, but it's generally understood that my word means nothing.”

“And you fall, and you crawl, and you break, what you get, and you turn it into honesty and promise you're never going to find you're faking, no no no.”

Turns Fall Break Honesty Promise

Author:Avril Lavigne

“Yet here we are, two children and a broken promise later, standing before each other, just the way we stood that day at the alter, with equal parts love and hope. And once again, I close my eyes, ready to take a leap of faith, ready for the long, hard road ahead. I have no idea how it's going to turn out, but then again, I never really did.”

Way Children Long Two Ideas Hard Eye Turns Ready Broken Promise Equal Standing No Idea Leap Broken Promises Leap Of Faith Hope And Love

Author:Emily Giffin

“Promise me we'll stay together, okay? His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in, to float in, forever. "You and me". "I promise". I say. behind us the door creaks open, and I turn around, expecting Raven, just as a voice cuts through the air: "Don't believe her.”

Believe Eye Together Turns Voice Behinds Forever Clear Cutting Doors Air Promise Okay Blue Don't Believe His Eyes Swim Pool Expecting Floats Transparent I Promise Ravens Promise Me

Author:Lauren Oliver

“She went back to Shane and settles in on his lap again, arm around his neck. His circled her waist. "I thought you had to go," he said. "And don't think i didn't see you kissing on my best friend." "He deserved it." "Yeah. Maybe i ought to kiss him, too." Michael, on his way out, didn't bother to turn around for that one. "Oh sure, you always promise.”

Thinking Way Said Turns Arms Ought Promise Kissing Yeah Bother Settling Necks My Best Friend Lap Shane

Book:Black Dawn

Source: Black Dawn

“I whisper and you close your eyes. I speak and you turn away. If I scream, will you finally hear me beg you to hold me close to you, promise you'll never let go?”

Ifs Eye Turns Speak Promise Letting Go Scream Hold Me Never Let Go

Book:Tricks

Source: Tricks