#promise

Beauty is the promise of happiness. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#happiness #promise

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#art #bands #business #compromise #dangerous

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain. ↗

— Ken Burns

#choice #commercial #compromise #conscious #gain

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#creates #destroys #lie #love #love always

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. ↗

— George W. Bush

#character #civility #commitment #compassion #courage

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better. ↗

— Maria Cantwell

#change #democracy #dr #everyday #everyday people

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. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#again #back #day #give #give me

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#heal #insofar #interesting #like #plague

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#compromise #compromised #contradictory #defeat #men

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#compromise #compromised #conversely #greater #i