“But promises are not clocks. You cannot tell time by a promise.”
“I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.”
“One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.”
“I promised to tell you how one falls in love.”
“Marketing is the name we use to describe the promise a company makes, the story it tells, the authentic way it delivers on that promise.”
“...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.”