Solemnly Promised Quotes & Sayings

I want so badly to take all her words and fit them like the pieces of a puzzle into the hole in my heart — Taylor Jenkins Reid

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it. — Ellen Glasgow

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety. — Mark Twain

Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing. — Rachel Zucker

[In a blogosphere] everybody has an opinion now, but I don't really freaking care about - all opinions ain't created equal, because everybody can go out there and express themselves and hide behind some character we don't know who you really are, a bunch of cowards. — Tavis Smiley

Rarely are we in touch with who is doing the doing - or, put otherwise, with the world of being. To — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us. — Ahmed Ben Bella

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. — Sean O'Faolain

You've come all the way from London just for a joke, then?" I asked. "I guess I shouldn't be surprised."

"No, no, my reason is of much greater importance. The entire city is in chaos. Buildings collapsing, streets flooding, the population plague-stricken, the Thames ablaze. But it was when an orphan boy I rescued from the rubble asked me, with his dying breath, 'Why did this all have to happen, sir? Why did Miss Wyndham leave?' that I solemnly promised to bring you back and restore peace. — Tarun Shanker

Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning. — Martin Buber

Ignoring a baby's cry is like using earplugs to stop the distressing noise of a smoke detector. The sound of a smoke detector is meant to alert us to a serious matter that requires a response - and so is the cry of a baby. — Jan Hunt

On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved. — Vince Cable

I just stored up my hurts, as if they were a tower made of fallen stars, invisible to most people, but brightly burning inside of me. — Alice Hoffman