Quotes of: Promised-land Keyword

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.

The Cremation of Sam McGee

My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.

Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

The Cave

I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

The Doomsday Conspiracy

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

Deschooling Society

We can position ourselves to receive God's promises, but it will take a lot of stretching, moving, breaking and changing!

Eve of Awakening

I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?

Embassytown

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

Enemies of Promise

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

An infant's smile was the greatest promise that the world would go on, no matter how much the grown-ups mucked around with it.

Baby for Keeps

I promise, when you always expect the worst, you will not be disappointed.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

God has ordained that His people live by promises and not by explanations.

Be Satisfied (Ecclesiastes): Looking for the Answer to the Meaning of Life

Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?

Bar Nights

There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on.

Blood Promise

She says you're not awake until you're actually out of bed and standing up.

Blood Promise

Because it’s our duty to God to protect the rest of humanity from evil creatures of the night.

Blood Promise

Love wasn't a fling in a back room at a party. It was something you lived and died for.

Blood Promise

Dimitri: "Why did you come here?" Rose: "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here.

Blood Promise

No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco.

Blood Promise