#mises

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's? ↗

— King Abdullah II

#compromises #concessions #during #freedom #gifts

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

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#future #human #human way #humanly #making

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

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises. ↗

— Russell Baker

#calls #closets #cockroaches #couple #grow

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

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

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#ever #every #government #i #indian

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