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:

    “Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.”
    —William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)

    “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)

    “Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)