#pledge

I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!" . . . Thomas hugged Chuck to his chest, squeezed him as tightly as possible, as if that could somehow bring him back, or show thanks for saving his life, for being his friend when no one else would. Thomas cried, wept like he'd never wept before. His great, racking sobs echoed through the chamber like the sounds of tortured pain. (pg 358 hardback) ↗

— James Dashner

#pledge #sadness #spoiler #life

It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything. ↗

— Shane Leslie

#last #pledge #say #senility

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States. ↗

— James K. Polk

#action #almost #although #chief #chosen

I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#become #expert #field #greatest #i

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#american people #deal #i #myself #new

Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open. ↗

— Peter Dawson

#championship #committee #compete #conditions #entry

And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills. ↗

— Chris Christie

#did #governor #i #in the past #out

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#end #faithful #generations #glorious #heritage

I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it. ↗

— Lauren Graham

#i #pledge #take #then

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#civilization #danger #gigantic #midst #multitudes