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)

    “Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it’s the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.”
    —Gerda Lerner (b. 1920)