I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
~By David Bowie ~
Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.
~By Michael Badnarik ~
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
~By Billy Sunday ~
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
~By William Hazlitt ~
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
~By Lawrence Durrell ~
The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
~By Al Sharpton ~
If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it.
~By Merv Griffin ~
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
~By William Hazlitt ~
As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.
~By Julian Bond ~
If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.
~By Brett Favre ~
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.
~By Oliver North ~
When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.
~By Adrian Smith ~
I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.
~By Donald Norman ~
He was a man, he always performed his promises.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.
~By Ray Davies ~
Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.
~By Toby Keith ~
You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.
~By Mark Caine ~
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 ~
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
~By Chinua Achebe ~
Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.
~By Kevin Mitnick ~
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 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 ~
I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.
~By Gregory Harrison ~
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 ~
Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.
~By Olivier Martinez ~
Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
~By Walter Lang ~
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents.
~By Jane D. Hull ~
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
~By Dwight L. Moody ~
Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers.
~By Ron Lewis ~
Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
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 ~
New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.
~By Daniel Akaka ~
It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.
~By Jim Leach ~
Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.
~By Thomas Goodwin ~
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 ~
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
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 ~
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
~By Quintilian ~
Love is a promise delivered already broken.
~By Steve Martin ~
The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march.
~By William Henry Ashley ~
April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
~By Hal Borland ~
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 ~
I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.
~By Jim Clark ~
The future is a bright as the promises of God.
~By Adoniram Judson ~
I'll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.
~By Akshay Kumar ~
I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
~By Paracelsus ~
Let God's promises shine on your problems.
~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way.
~By Ian Jackson ~
You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.
~By Ayrton Senna ~
Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.
~By David McNally ~
Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
~By George W. Bush ~
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 Lane Allen ~
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
~By Bliss Carman ~
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 ~
Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.
~By William Weld ~
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
~By Leon Kass ~
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 ~
One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.
~By Mariah Carey ~
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
~By Larry Wall ~
We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
~By Ed Wood ~
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 ~
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
~By Michelangelo ~
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.
~By Louis Stokes ~
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 ~
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
~By Spiro T. Agnew ~
I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.
~By Michael Gambon ~
All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer.
~By James W. Black ~
We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.
~By Dennis Hastert ~
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
~By Moliere ~
You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.
~By Richard Widmark ~
Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!
~By Charles Atlas ~
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 ~
In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.
~By Clare Short ~
As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.
~By David Wilkerson ~
Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.
~By Leo Ornstein ~
We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.
~By Louis Leakey ~
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 ~
A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.
~By Mickey Rourke ~
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 ~
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.
~By Sherrod Brown ~
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.
~By Wernher von Braun ~
The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.
~By Steve Chabot ~
But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.
~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.
~By Kevin Mitnick ~
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 ~
The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.
~By Cindy Sherman ~
This product is a compromise, and the nature of compromise is that you don't get everything you want.
~By Conrad Bums ~
After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
~By Barack Obama ~
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
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