Promising
of Promise
Making a promise or promises; affording hope or assurance; as, promising person; a promising day.
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Promising Quotations
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo Coelho
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
Gertrude Stein
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
Pope John Paul II
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E. B. White
I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.
Sarah Palin
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly
If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
Mary Astell
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
James Broughton
Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product.
Matthew Lesko
Promising Translations
promising in French is promettant
promising in German is aussichtsvoll, versprechend, vielversprechend
promising in Spanish is prometedor
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