“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