#mises

Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep. ↗

— Howard Dean

#keep #make #promises #real

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. ↗

— Charles Edison

#after #am #bickering #capacity #civil

I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#cancer #comes #done #enlighten #enlightened

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. ↗

— Epictetus

#anything #approach #brings #each #happiness

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#break #commitments #keep #losers #make

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#anyone #civilized #creed #curious #every

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#compromises #full #life #uncompromising

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#between #candidate #forgotten #like #made

Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep. ↗

— Anthony Hitt

#keep #make #only #promise #promises

The Chief Whip's job is trying to make sure that the Government - and MPs elected as part of the governing party - deliver the promises that they were elected on. That's a healthy part of the democratic process. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#deliver #democratic #democratic process #elected #governing