#mises

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#keep #leave #love #persons #promises

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. ↗

— Arthur Balfour

#churchill #i #man #promise #promises

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. ↗

— John Dewey

#beliefs #compelled #compromises #even #hangs

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say! ↗

— Mary Douglas

#disappointment #expectations #go #hand #i

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#ask #bear #derives #expectation #fact

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. ↗

— John Cheever

#excellent #good #greater #hundred #latitude

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it. ↗

— Red Cloud

#i can #kept #land #made #many

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending. ↗

— George P. Baker

#best #character #ending #enough #farce

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#disappointing #least #man #promises #vote

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#because #belong #cannot #compromises #grants