What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control. ~By Paul Ryan ~
Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch. ~By Craig Kilborn ~
I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service. ~By Charles Edison ~
The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful. ~By Doc Hastings ~
Once you're signed to a label you compromise. ~By Talib Kweli ~
One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more. ~By Hedy Lamarr ~
I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night. ~By Tim Robbins ~
God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven. ~By Bill Hybels ~
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. ~By George Herbert ~
I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink. ~By Ron Paul ~
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left. ~By Robert Bork ~
Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this. ~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. ~By Robert Frost ~
We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise. ~By Raquel Welch ~
The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. ~By Enid Bagnold ~
I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. ~By Arthur Balfour ~
From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, from gavel to gavel - whether it's the House of Representatives or the Senate. That's the whole reason for being. ~By Brian Lamb ~
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf. ~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong. ~By Lord Edward Cecil ~
Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised. ~By Herbert Croly ~
The sheik is, thank God, still alive and this hurts Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama. ~By Mohammed Omar ~
We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale. ~By Nick Rahall ~
Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire. ~By Leland Stanford ~
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion. ~By Zelda Fitzgerald ~
Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise. ~By Henry Ossawa Tanner ~
Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. ~By Thomas Sowell ~
Promise is most given when the least is said. ~By George Chapman ~
We'll be back. I promise you that. ~By Samuel West ~
That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there. ~By Alan Vega ~
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~By A. A. Milne ~
The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled. ~By Bobby Scott ~
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. ~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result. ~By Richard Widmark ~
We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides. ~By Ariel Sharon ~
Childhood is a promise that is never kept. ~By Ken Hill ~
No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me. ~By Aldrich Ames ~
I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul. ~By Joan Jett ~
I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going. ~By Barbara Mandrell ~
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. ~By Dick Gregory ~
I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very emotional scene in the church. He's just a wonderful acting partner. You feel very safe with him. ~By Delta Burke ~
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. ~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. ~By Frank Stella ~
America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning. ~By Nelson Rockefeller ~
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. ~By Charles Sumner ~
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. ~By Marcel Proust ~
Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road. ~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
I hope it goes beyond meeting with them to a willingness to listen and compromise on issues. ~By Dennis Moore ~
The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise. ~By Jose Serrano ~
With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from. ~By Bruce Greenwood ~
Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one. ~By Walter Payton ~
Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women. ~By Delphine de Girardin ~
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. ~By Chinua Achebe ~
Solutions must be based on compromises. ~By Joschka Fischer ~
But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations. ~By Sue Kelly ~
I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made. ~By Amy Vanderbilt ~
I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions. ~By Ian Jackson ~
Nothing in life is promised except death. ~By Kanye West ~
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. ~By Henry Ellis ~
The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid. ~By Paul Hoffman ~
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. ~By Buffalo Bill ~
Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves. ~By Bryant H. McGill ~
So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less. ~By Ruth Ann Minner ~
You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office. ~By Joe Moore ~
We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise. ~By John Shadegg ~
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. ~By Carl Jung ~
I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs. ~By Cameron Diaz ~
If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good. ~By Bob Greene ~
Love is a promise delivered already broken. ~By Steve Martin ~
We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building. ~By Sherrod Brown ~
The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams. ~By Ed Markey ~
You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise. ~By Mike Davidson ~
The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value. ~By Morris Hite ~
Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way. ~By Bill O'Reilly ~
A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true. ~By Ray Evans ~
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. ~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. ~By Gertrude Jekyll ~
Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there. ~By Tim O'Reilly ~
I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues. ~By Warren Christopher ~
Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that. ~By Julie Delpy ~
Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the benefits they were promised, and they should realize that, were it not for these veterans, there would be nothing to hand out. ~By Nick Lampson ~
Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism. ~By John Guare ~
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle. ~By Andrew Carnegie ~
April is a promise that May is bound to keep. ~By Hal Borland ~
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. ~By Hannah Arendt ~
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them? ~By Rush Limbaugh ~
He was a man, he always performed his promises. ~By Zebulon Pike ~
There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them. ~By John McCarthy ~
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it. ~By Martin Sheen ~
As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it. ~By Sanjay Kumar ~
You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains. ~By Eduard Shevardnadze ~
Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so. ~By Anna Lindh ~
Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology. ~By Arthur Levitt ~
I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary. ~By George Woodcock ~
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ~By Stuart Chase ~
If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state. ~By Amos Oz ~
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. ~By James Allen ~
The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon. ~By Russ Carnahan ~
It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations. ~By Thomas Goodwin ~
More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency. ~By Peter Singer ~
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