A mysterious ability, a broken promise, a life changed forever...
What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.
Staring at my outstretched pinky questioningly his perfect lips twitched into a smile. Pinky promise?
You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.
We promised new benefits to seniors like preventive screening and diabetes testing. We kept that promise.
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.
Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.
Ofelia: Many, many years ago in a sad, faraway land, there was an enormous mountain made of rough, black stone. At sunset, on top of that mountain, a magic rose blossomed every night that made whoever plucked it immortal. But no one dared go near it ...
The walking-stick reaches many lands, the word many more.
[Mal attacks Cobb and Ariadne; Cobb closes elevator door before Mal can reach them] Mal: You promised! You promised! Cobb: Please, I just have to keep you here, just for now. Mal: You said we'd be together! You said we'd grow old together! Cobb: I'll...
Will Turner: Where's Elizabeth? Jack Sparrow: She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of cours...
Aretha Robinson: If you want to do something to make your mama proud, promise me. Promise me you won't let nobody turn you into no cripple, you won't become no charity case, and you'll stand on your own two feet. Young Ray Robinson: I promise. Aretha...
The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity...
Lazar Wolf: We can fight to keep our home. Constable: Against our militia, our army? I wouldn't advise that! Tevye: I have some advice for you. Get off my land. This is still my home, my land. Get off my land.
He promised me earrings, but then only pierced my ears.
Everything has to come to an end, sometime.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
I was not born for one corner; The whole world is my native land.
