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:

    The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable rĂ´le 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)

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

    The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children!
    Denis Diderot (1713–1784)