“It has been an honor to work in the Barack Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.” YearsHas BeensStillsTwoGovernmentPresidentWifeMiddleReturnHonorPeriodsPromiseMy WifeEastAdministrationTwo YearsMiddle EastI PromiseUnprecedented Author:Dennis A. Ross
“I've cried a hundred times at The Notebook. My wife cries and that makes me cry, and she makes me promise we're going to die in bed together. I'm like: "That's weird, I don't want to talk about that."” WantTogetherDiesWifeCryPromiseBedHundredMy WifeCriedNotebook Author:Channing Tatum
“The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.” MenWritingStillsWholeLeftHalfMorningFourWifeLandFieldsPromiseWhole LifeClockDozenPigsNew DayWisestFertilityPasturesWisest ManPallets Author:Jose Saramago
“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.” IfsStillsFeelingsGivenLordWifePromiseDenyRevelationsI PromisePolygamy Book:Journal of Discourses Source: Journal of Discourses
“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.” ThinkingWorldWayMayChildrenStillsRememberFacesMotherTurnsEvilFatherEnemyLaughingWifeChildhoodYouthBrotherPromiseHusbandFilledEndureOpeningDesertJoyfulBrothers And SistersInfantRepentBosomsMerryUnworthyRaptureCondemnationMother's Love Author:Washington Irving
“I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God, upon my knees, in prayer.” NightPrayerWifeCallingPromiseBedMy WifeKnees Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Pepys (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Pepys (Illustrated)
“The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.” IfsWorldBelieveHomeMotherHeavenSexWomenPleasureRoomsLordWifeDutyPromiseSacredFortunateFulfillmentBelovedBlissOppositionComing HomeVulgarOur LordJoyousDeservingIdyllicSmall RoomsBeloved Wife Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.” KnowsMenYearsMeanArtWisdomEyeTimeGirlThreeHurtKnowledgeWorryWifeCryListeningPromiseHusbandCleanWideTheeCooksMealsHer EyesReally MeanSweetestI PromiseEyes Wide Open Author:Alan Beck
“If you can't keep a promise to your family, can't keep a promise to your wife, you're having an affair, you're lying about the affair repeatedly. Why should the American people trust you when you say you're not gonna lie to them. Why should we trust you?” PeopleIfsShouldLyingWifePromiseAffairOur Family Author:Sean Hannity
“If laughter is the best medicine, I promise to continue to make you laugh as my wife and I work together with the National Kidney Foundation to save lives.” IfsTogetherLaughingWifePromiseLaughterFoundationMedicineMy WifeWorking TogetherI PromiseKidneysSave A LifeMake You LaughLaughter Is The Best Medicine Author:George Lopez
“Senator apparently having overcome his loyalty to his wife and father. [Ted] Cruz finally came out and endorsed Donald Trump writing on Facebook, "If Clinton wins, we know with 100 percent certainty that she would deliver on her left-wing promises with devastating results for our country. My conscience tells me I must do whatever I can to stop that."” IfsKnowsWritingI CanCountryFatherWinningLeftResultsWifeTrumpPromisePercentConscienceOvercomingWingsClintonLoyaltyOur CountryCertaintySenatorsLeft WingCruz Author:Chris Hayes
“When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.” MenHas BeensMorningWifePromiseRoseConsistentlyBouquetsMorning AfterBattering Author:Joe Slovo
“The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power of self-mastery that he may never be a slave to indulgence or other weaknesses, to develop [strong] manhood, beautiful womanhood that in every child and every youth may be found at least the promise of a friend, a companion, one who later may be fit for husband or wife, an exemplary father or a loving intelligent mother, one who can face life with courage, meet disaster with fortitude, and face death without fear.” WellsMayChildrenLongSelfBeautifulFacesMotherFoundFatherStrongWifeYouthFitPromiseHusbandWeaknessResourcesIntelligentAimSlaveEndureDisasterWell BeingCompanionMasteryWomanhoodManhoodFortitudeIndulgenceSelf MasteryBe A SlaveExemplaryAim Of Education Author:David O. McKay
“I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in m bed. That's what I want today. That's what I'll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness.” IfsWantYearsTodayWalksForeverWifePromiseBedHundredMy WifeI Want YouPledge Author:Christina Dodd
“If she took Po as her husband, she would be making promises about a future she couldn't yet see. For once she became his wife, she would be his forever. And, no matter how much freedom Po gave her, she would always know that it was a gift. Her freedom would be not be her own; it would be Po's to give or to withhold. That he never would withhold it made no difference. If it did not come from her, it was not really hers.” IfsKnowsGivingMadeMatterWould BeDifferencesForeverWifePromiseHusband Author:Kristin Cashore