“Some men promise to keep your secret and yet reveal it without knowing they are doing so; they do not wag their lips, and yet they are understood; it is read on their brow and in their eyes; it is seen through their breast; they are transparent.” MenEyeSecretKnowingPromiseUnderstoodLipsBreastsTransparentBrowsWags Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.” HardMomentsSeemsSorrowPromiseUnderstoodShiningScriptureVersesStanding OutSplendorSunbeams Author:Horatius Bonar
“Nobody likes to see a body, but it's better than seeing a ghost. Bodies just make you doubt the world and the people in it. Ghosts make you doubt everything, and to doubt it in a part of the mind that has no words to answer the question, where the comforting promises you make yourself are neither believed nor even really understood.” PeopleWorldMindBodyAnswersDoubtSeeingPromiseUnderstoodGhostLikesComforting Author:Michael Marshall Smith
“No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.” MenCountryPayWiseMankindHonorPromiseUnderstoodRegardEndeavorObligedOathBeing WiseChasteCreditors Book:The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author
“But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise won’t come true.” IfsNeedsPromiseUnderstoodFairytale Book:The Orange Girl Source: The Orange Girl
“When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.” TryingMeanChildrenHappensWantedWishPromiseUnderstoodWork OutPromise MeWanted Someone Author:Laurell K. Hamilton
“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.” WritingMindMeanLittlesImportantStoriesTurnsLinesKnowingPiecesBuildingPromisePicksUnderstoodMy FamilySickRepeatsFriendlySwearPersonal LifeHere And ThereScrapBuilding ThingsWords Mean Nothing Author:David Sedaris
“Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood how necessary the promises we made to each other were to our happiness. You couldn't have real freedom unless you knew were the walls were and tended to them. We could lean on the walls because they existed; they existed because we leaned on them.” MadeRealWallPromiseUnderstoodGardenParadisePersianReal Freedom Author:Paula McLain