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“I won't get killed,' Rose protested. Is that a promise?' Fish asked dryly, stirring his tea. 'If you break your word, I'll never believe you again.' Rose shook her head at him. 'How can you even taste your tea if you put that much sugar in it?' Don't change the subject. I don't want to be responsible for depriving the world of Rose Brier. Under no circumstances are you allowed to help us do anything more dangerous than...change the oil in my car.”

Ifs World Want Believe Helping Break Subjects Dangerous Car Circumstances Promise Taste Responsible Rose Fishes Oil Tea Sugar Being Responsible Stirring You Again Don't Change Depriving

Author:Regina Doman

“In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.”

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation

“Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate struggle for changing the world. Against all fetishism of the productive forces, against the continued enslavement of individuals by the objective conditions (which remain those of domination), art represents the ultimate goal of all revolutions: the freedom and happiness of the individual.”

Source: The aesthetic dimension: toward a critique of Marxist aesthetics

“Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.”

World Way Want Body Found Promise New Things Keeping Promises Kept Promises Promises That Are Broken

Book:Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

Source: Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

“I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.- spoken by death”

World Humans I Can Sun Promise Factories

Book:Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger

Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger

“Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.”

World Believe Humans Real Together I Believe Human Beings Share Century Promise Succeed Thrive Being Real Together We Can

Author:Abdallah II

“If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury")”

Ifs World Needs Giving Dream Moving Spirit Promise Giving Up Core Luxury Poetry Is Our World Fountain

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.”

World Real Moments Promise Lessons Mets Real World Harsh Carefree

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that 'God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish'? Surely that precious word, 'Whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life freely' and that solemn promise, 'Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out,' are better than signs and wonders! A truthful Saviour ought to be believed. He is truth itself. Why will you ask proof of the veracity of One who cannot lie?”

World Should Lying Asks Water Wonder Wise Son Ought Promise Miracle Casts Proof Truthful Solemn Saviour Veracity Water Of Life Signs And Wonders

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Did you see the frightened ones, Did you hear the falling bombs, Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies. Good bye blue skies.”

World Running Fall Wonder Clear Sky Promise Blue Brave Bombs Frightened New World Shelter Bye Good Bye Blue Sky Brave New World Clear Blue Sky

Author:Roger Waters

“I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.”

World Fall Feet Promise Kissing Shoes Falling Down Promise Me Cryptic

Book:Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel

Source: Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel

“In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.”

World Mean Made Would Be Nice Broken Promise Being Nice Worthless Vow Pledge

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”

Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'

“Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.”

World Facts Today Asks Bears Honor Promise Expectations Witness Oath Implicit Today's World

Book:Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State

Source: Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State

“I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all.”

World Giving Wisdom Dies Laughing This World Holy Promise Giving Up Never Giving Up I Promise Yelling Stubbornness

Book:Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.”

“People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don’t change the length of time. Nothing comes with a guarantee.”

People World Want Long Together Promise Guarantees Length Don't Change Stay True

Book:Doubleblind

Source: Doubleblind

“A baby was a fact. It was a being with a mind and a nature, and you could feel about it any way you liked, but a baby wouldn't care. Just by existing, it demanded that you believe in a future: the future it would crawl in, walk in, live in. A baby was a piece of time; it was a promise you made that the world made back to you.”

World Way Feels Mind Believe Made Facts Care Walks Pieces Baby Promise

Author:Justin Cronin

“It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.”

Source: The Children's Hospital

“It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different; if there was ever a time when there were passages, doors, the borders open and many crossing, that time is not now. The world is older than it was. Even the weather isn’t as we remember it clearly once being; never lately does there come a summer day such as we remember, never clouds as white as that, never grass as odorous or shade as deep and full of promise as we remember they can be, as once upon a time they were.”

Ifs Knows World Long Doe Different Remember White Doors Promise Summer Long Time Clouds Weather Grass Borders Shade Passages Long Time Ago Crossings Once Upon A Time Summer Days

Author:John Crowley

“For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.”

World Reality Imagination Rocks Promise Wings Fairy Outlets Hints Ineffable Reverie Unreality

Book:(The Great Gatsby)

Source: (The Great Gatsby)

“In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who were parasitical upon them, and it had generally been softened by promises of an imaginary world beyond the grave.”

World Needs Has Beens Past Form Kings Promise Lawyer Graves Doctrine Priests Imaginary Utopia Utopian Futuristic Imaginary World Ignorance In 1984

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love; the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing; the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on.”

“We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.”

People Thinking World Want Mind Heart Order Jesus Natural Challenges Wonderful Modern Broken Promise Disease Miracle Hunger Proof Heal Restoration Suspension Natural Order Heal The World

Author:Timothy Keller

“She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust.”

Knows World Home Light Waiting Voice Dark Walks Secret Saws Arms Promise Rain Meetings Tiny Necks Sunshine Umbrella Fingertips Balconies

Author:Laini Taylor

“Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise that come into our world show us our true selves- who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be.”

World Self Shows Politics Wish Promise Aspect Who We Are Our World Parenthood Helpless True Self Family And Friends Bundles Aspects Of Life Work Relationships

Book:It Takes a Village

Source: It Takes a Village

“In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.”

Men World Want Believe May War States Given Principles Achieve Conditions Promise Vote Affair Plenty

Book:WALDEN TWO

Source: WALDEN TWO

“It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. A game of baseball can't really make a summer day last forever. A home run can't really heal all the broken places in our world, or in a single human heart. And there was no way that Mr. Feld could keep his promise never to leave Ethan again. All parents leave their children one day.”

Source: Summerland

“After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise and future, after the years of schooling, fitting yourself into different size desks, memorizing, reciting, reporting, and performing for jury after jury of teachers, counselors, and administrators, you still feel inadequate, alone, vulnerable, and naked in a world that can be unforgiving and terribly demanding.”

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.”

Ifs World Life Use Humanity Causes Behinds Sun Gone Promise Mountain Eternal Relation Infinite Strive Casts Noble Better Place Consolation Harmonious Better Days High Road Noble Causes

Author:Winston Churchill

“If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.”

People Ifs World Want Trying Care Promise Human Rights Poorest Plight

Author:David Cameron

“I hate this fear. I hate this. I hate this world. I hate it that nobody needs me. I don’t own this world. I’ve had enough. It’s not supposed to be my fault. Only now.. Only now that I realized.. I hate this world now, living in this world where ‘promise’, ‘bond’ and ‘eternity’ don’t exist, and living in a world full fo strangers is a very, very scary thing. Scared that there’s no guarantee that I’ll be loved. You can’t be living with people surrounding you forever. You just cant. The world is too scary. - Akito”

People World Needs Enough Hate Forever This World Promise Eternity I Hate Faults Scared Scary Stranger I Realized Supposed To Be Guarantees Cant Had Enough Guarantees That Scary Things

Author:Natsuki Takaya

“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

“In a kinder world," he whispered, "one I promise you I've seen, men and women flirt and dance and love with only the fear of what it would mean without the other in their lives.”

Men World Life Mean Promise Men And Women And Love Flirting I Promise Kinder

Author:Melina Marchetta

“School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.”

World Age School Poor Promise Salvation Technological Proletariat World Religions

Book:The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays

Source: The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays

“In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world.”

World Would Be Girl Promise Capable Another Life

Author:Katy Perry

“The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise. I felt an almost irresistible urge to take her hand and place it flat against my chest, near my heart. Maybe I should've done it. I know now that she would've laughed, if I'd done it, and she would've liked me for it. But strangers that we were then, we stood for five long seconds and held the stare, while all the parallel worlds, all the parallel lives that might've been, and never would be, whirled around us.”

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or a passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convinced that even the smallest particle of the surrounding world was charged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, and one would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind- loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by the high, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, so many and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like fireflies in the perfumed heat of summer night.”

Source: Collected Poems

“In another life, I would be your girl, we keep all our promises, the us against the world, In another life, I would make you stay, So I don't have to say you were the one that got away the one that got away”

World Would Be Girl Promise Another Life

Author:Katy Perry

“There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.”

World Night Promise Bed Late Forgotten Arise Spots Evening Dawn

Book:Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy

Source: Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy

“I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it really takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”

Ifs Thinking World Want Needs Motivational Night Minutes Design Willing Promise Lucky Worth It Inventor I Promise Great Ones Night Thinking

Author:Steve Wozniak

“This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.”

People World Heart This World Broken Promise Broken Promises Broken Things

Book:The Unquiet: A Thriller

Source: The Unquiet: A Thriller

“God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.”

People World Doe Said Christian Plans This World Promise Raises Very Good Abandon Remakes God's Plan

Author:N. T. Wright

“Please," Kendra said. "Think of all the lives that will be destroyed." "I have," Mark said. "Believe me, darling, I grasp all aspects of this, I really do. But how much has the public I'm protecting worried about me? My sanity, my happiness, my right to find peace?" "They made no promises," Bracken said. "They are not preventing the end of the world. Those who know about your sacrifice appreciate you immeasurably. Your life may not be fair, but it is absolutely necessary.”

“That's the beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel's tears away and invented worlds just so he could promise them to her, when she tore the skin off her own arm at the thought of living without him.”

World Lost Fields Tears Arms Promise Skins Hot Cures Hot Days

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition, is uncreated simply begs the question. Any being capable of creating a complex world promises to be very complex himself. As the biologist Richard Dawkins has observed repeatedly, the only natural process we know of that could produce a being capable of designing things is evolution.”

Ifs Knows World Problem Universe Process Natural Design Produce Evolution Promise Creating Capable Infinite Complexes Critics Notion Definitions Creator Biologist

Author:Sam Harris

“Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!”

World Violence Fool Promise Remakes Rogues

Author:Emile Zola

“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything & and make your optimisom come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best. Forget the mistakes of the past & press on the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to critize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side as long as you are true to the best that is in you.”

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