For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.
When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
Nikolai Luzhin: Kirill, we don't kill little babies.
Semyon: Soyka had brothers. Nikolai Luzhin: Kirill has me.
Carol Anne: You promised pizza.
Q: So much for my promising career in espionage.
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready.
To promise is to grant the future, it's a lie waiting to happen
Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon
Alas! Charles made the promise glibly, and forgot all about it.
When you make a promise, keep it.
You can get people to work by using threats or by promising rewards.
Satan has control now. No matter where you look, he is in control, even in our own land. He is guiding the governments as far as the Lord will permit him. That is why there is so much strife, turmoil, and confusion all over the earth. One master mind...
We depend upon other creatures and survive by their deaths. To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clum...
I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ’em ...
You've walked the woods today. Tell me there isna something about this land that doesna take hold of you and sink into your verra soul." Her smile slowly faded. "It did. How did you know?" "You were born here, Iona. You were part of this land, just a...
I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about the landscapes which I saw in dreams. My feet stepped like theirs over the floorboards and the flag...
The source of our art then is not in the achievements of other artists in other days and lands, although it has learned a great deal from these, our art is founded on a long and growing love and understanding of the North in an ever clearer experienc...
This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is whiter than chalk, The air is heady, like wine, And the rosy body of the pines Is naked in the sunset hour. And t...
He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?' The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek gods, who with their arrogance, encouraged me to march ...
