PROMISES in Classic Quotes

1  The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

2  It was one of the watchers of the night before who had promised to come back so he cooked breakfast for three which he and the other man ate together.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

3  The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  She held my hand impersonally, as a promise that she'd take care of me in a minute, and gave ear to two girls in twin yellow dresses who stopped at the foot of the steps.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth--but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1