Best promise & wanted Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.”

Years Wanted Easy Struggle Happened Promise Offers

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.”

“I promise you, if you have a plan, you can accomplish everything you ever wanted”

Ifs Wanted Plans Promise Accomplish I Promise

Author:Nas

“For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving.”

Wanted Wonderful Wind Promise Approach Rest Of Your Life Manhattan Arriving Improbable Vantage Point

Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel

Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel

“Well, it was interesting because when I was going to do it the first time in my head was Leonardo DiCaprio [for Chris] and Marlon Brando was going to play the character that Hal Holbrook eventually played. But then when it wasn't to be and there was no promise that it ever would be I think some part of me didn't want to attach specifics to it anymore - actors or anything else - because I wanted to see it made that much more badly.”

Thinking Want Firsts Wells Made Play Character Would Be Wanted Actors Interesting Promise First Time Leonardo Brando Specifics

Author:Sean Penn

“For me, the greatest source of frustration was trying to work with a willful child when there was something else I wanted - say, to get the child to go to bed so I could have my own time. Just the promise of the time, and feeling that promise slip away, was enough to introduce a whole other element of stress into the encounter.”

Trying Children Enough Whole Feelings Wanted My Own Source Promise Bed Elements Stress Encounters Frustration Slips Introducing

Author:Carolyn Hax

“I never expected to sell my art. It wasn't like today where you come out of art school and they promise you a future. Now it's almost regulated in a way. When we came out of school, we just wanted to make art that'd blow your hair back and do it for sport. There was no commercial possibility that we saw.”

Way Art Today Wanted School Sports Saws Possibility Hair Promise Sells Blow Expected Art School Where You Come

Author:Edward Ruscha

“She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would listen intently and then promise to make it all come true. And the way he said it made her believe him, and she knew how much he meant to her.”

Way Believe Made Said Dream Wanted Promise Notebook Hopes And Dreams Notebook Memorable

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?”

Want Matter Might Wanted Life Is Desire Courses Our Lives Promise Cost No Matter What Determine Command

Book:Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

“I wanted proof, not promises.”

Wanted Promise Proof

Book:Hell Fire: A Corine Solomon Novel

Source: Hell Fire: A Corine Solomon Novel

“Isabella Swan?” He looked up at me through his impossibly long lashes, his golden eyes soft but, somehow, still scorching. “I promise to love you forever—every single day of forever. Will you marry me?” There were many things I wanted to say, some of them not nice at all, and others more disgustingly gooey and romantic than he probably dreamed I was capable of. Rather than embarrass myself with either, I whispered, “Yes.” “Thank you,” he said simply. He took my left hand and kissed each of my fingertips before he kissed the ring that was now mine.”

Source: Eclipse

“He waved to the city and said good-bye. The city responded by carrying on the way it always did, traffic moving forward uninterrupted, without slowing, as if it were trying to demonstrate its permanence and show him it would still be there if he ever wanted to return. That promise was the best and only thing he could ask of it.”

Ifs Way Trying Said Stills Shows Wanted Moving Asks Cities Return Promise Moving Forward Traffic Bye Good Bye Permanence Slowing Carrying On

Book:The Clockwork Three

Source: The Clockwork Three

“Oh, good lord, Jeff. Don't go getting all emotional on me. I've been getting it from my mom, my dad, my sister, the freaking MAILMAN--I don't need it from you, too. All I ask is that you promise me one thing.' 'What?' 'Just water the plants while I'm gone, all right?' 'You don't have plants, Tad.' 'I know. I just always wanted to say that.”

Knows Needs Wanted Asks Water Lord Gone One Thing Emotional Mom Dad Promise Plant My Dad My Mom My Sister Promise Me Mailman

Author:Jordan Sonnenblick

“Perhaps he could still weave together the broken threads of his life. And yet, I wanted him here now. I needed him here. In the darkness, if I sat very still, I could almost feel his presence by me, quite near, but not too near. Didn't I promise to keep you safe, he would say softly. I have never broken a promise. Don't look so worried, Jenny. And yet, he would be careful. Careful not to move too close. Careful not to frighten me. Waiting still. I am your shelter. Don't be afraid.”

Ifs Feels Looks Stills Would Be Wanted Together Moving Waiting Darkness Broken Needed Promise Safe Careful Worried Sat Be Careful Shelter Thread I Promise Jenny

Author:Juliet Marillier

“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.”

Trying Mean Children Happens Wanted Wish Promise Understood Work Out Promise Me Wanted Someone

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“It's just that, I know how you're unhappy a lot. And, maybe it doesn't help anything, but I wanted you to know that I'm always here. I won't ever let you down―I promise that you can always count on me. Wow, that does sound corny. But you know that, right? That I would never, ever hurt you?" "Yeah Jake. I know that. And I already do count on you, probably more than you know.”

Knows Doe Helping Wanted Sound Hurt Know How Promise Yeah Unhappy Wow Corny I Promise Jake Count On Me

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Now that we were alone,i was self-conscious and cranky again.Why had i wanted to stay?if i had been programmed to want to be with dylan,heads were gonna roll,i promise you that.”

Ifs Want Self Wanted Promise Conscious Dylan Self Conscious I Promise Cranky

Author:James Patterson

“It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this.”

World Hard Wanted Remember Joy Hate Break Morning Too Much Cry Promise Heavy Clarity Sensual Hated Hopeless Break Out

Author:John Knowles

“I wanted to dissolve into the floor, mixing myself with the hard stone. A stone had a single purpose: to be. No complicated promises, no worries and no feelings.”

Hard Feelings Wanted Purpose Worry Promise Stones Complicated Mixing No Worries

Book:Magic Study

Source: Magic Study

“I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.”

Thinking Made Wanted Broken Promise Destined

Book:Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

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