The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
~By Mackenzie King ~
I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
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 ~
We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.
~By Steven Levy ~
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
~By Bernard De Voto ~
We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.
~By Thomas Goodwin ~
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
~By Billy Sunday ~
But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
~By Fareed Zakaria ~
You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.
~By Joe Moore ~
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 ~
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 ~
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
~By George W. Bush ~
Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.
~By Helen Thomas ~
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
~By Otis Rush ~
Promise is most given when the least is said.
~By George Chapman ~
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 ~
I don't think you can compromise, news either has integrity or it doesn't. It either is accurate, balanced and fair or it isn't.
~By Richard Parsons ~
My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.
~By Bob Ney ~
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
~By Ernest Istook ~
How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
~By Dan Savage ~
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
~By Jim Rohn ~
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.
~By Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. ~
Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.
~By Eric Berne ~
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
~By Arthur Bloch ~
I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.
~By Gregory Harrison ~
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.
~By Brad Henry ~
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
~By Stuart Chase ~
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 musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success.
~By Lucien Bouchard ~
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
~By Barry Goldwater ~
The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system.
~By Steve Israel ~
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
~By Camille Claudel ~
I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.
~By Eric Cantor ~
We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
~By John C. Crosby ~
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 ~
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to march with those people takes a lot of compromise on my end.
~By David Cross ~
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
~By Moliere ~
Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
~By Carlos Salinas de Gortari ~
Love is a promise delivered already broken.
~By Steve Martin ~
After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.
~By William Lilly ~
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
~By Ricardo Lagos ~
Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.
~By Wavy Gravy ~
I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.
~By Galen Rowell ~
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.
~By Lucille Roybal Allard ~
Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.
~By Ted Danson ~
But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.
~By Jimmy Page ~
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
I will love you with all my heart, To have forever - never to part. This is a promise engrained in me, Take my hand and let it be.
~By Diana Lynn ~
As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.
~By John Keegan ~
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 ~
We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.
~By Freeman Thomas ~
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
~By Nikita Khrushchev ~
He was a man, he always performed his promises.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
~By William Penn ~
If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it.
~By Merv Griffin ~
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 ~
Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood.
~By William Tyndale ~
Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation.
~By Ron Lewis ~
I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
~By Dwight L. Moody ~
I'll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.
~By Akshay Kumar ~
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 ~
Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
~By Anthony Powell ~
I never promised you a rose garden.
~By Traian Basescu ~
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
~By Alexandre Dumas ~
We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.
~By Paul Ryan ~
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 ~
Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.
~By Mike Leigh ~
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
~By Herbert Croly ~
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 ~
Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.
~By Tom Coburn ~
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 ~
It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.
~By Charles Edison ~
The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa.
~By Lewis Tappan ~
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
~By Charles Wesley ~
You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.
~By Eduard Shevardnadze ~
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 ~
When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?
~By Eva Braun ~
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