Promise

Promise

A promise is a commitment by someone to do or not do something.

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Famous quotes containing the word promise:

    “Angela Vickers: Did you promise to be a good boy? Not to waste your time on girls?
    George Eastman: I don’t waste my time.”
    —Michael Wilson (1914–1978)

    “At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.”
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

    “The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable rôle with the promise of rewards—material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the Garden of Eden.”
    —Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)