#promise

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#avoid #bipartisanship #causes #compromises #cooperate

And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done. ↗

— Herman Cain

#compromise #country #done #ever #gets

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

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship. ↗

— Tim Allen

#marriage #nurtures #relationship

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

Politics is compromise. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#politics

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. ↗

— Enid Bagnold

#built #compromise #gross #name #second

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

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#flown #full #gets #like #nest

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. ↗

— Wade Davis

#children #could #elders #every #fate