#promise

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

— Evelyn Waugh

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. ↗

— Simone Weil

#anything #beauty #gives #never #promises

Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government. ↗

— William Weld

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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. ↗

— Mae West

#performance #pounds #promises #worth

Nothing in life is promised except death. ↗

— Kanye West

#except #life #nothing #promised

The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done. ↗

— Charles Williams

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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect. ↗

— Ian Williams

#expect #into #larger #make #many

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself. ↗

— Toby Keith

#compromise #even #hurts #yourself

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.' ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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