1110 – “I can’t promise you forever. I don’t think anyone can, but I will promise you every now, and everything I am.”

-Niocra Kladsflem

689 – “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”

–Pip in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations

686 – “To love somebody is not just a feeling—it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”

–Erich Fromm

673 – “We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.”

–Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States of America

662 – “Promise me you’ll remember, you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think.”

–A A Milne [Attributed]

330 – “All the traditions of our past, all the lessons of our heritage, all the promises of our future point to another path, the path of common purpose and the restoration of American values. That path leads to true freedom for our Nation and ourselves.”

–Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States of America