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“Love is keeping the promise anyway.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“beauty is the promise of happiness.” Marcel Proust, The Prisoner
“to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“The Law has a promise but it is a conditional promise, depending upon whether people fulfill the Law.” Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“His promises were, as he then was, mighty; but his performance, as he is now, nothing.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
“She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best, so she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“We’re the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“But the foundation of justice is good faith, that is, steadfastness and truth in promises and agreements.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties
“Secrets had an immense attraction for him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.” William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

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