#promise

Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#children #disappointment #early #especially #fulfill

In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day. ↗

— Travis Barker

#day #eat #ever #every #every day

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#any #controversy #either #impartial #perceive

And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood. ↗

— William Tyndale

#blood #christ #even #flesh #god

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#everything #nothing #promise #success #wish

I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very emotional scene in the church. He's just a wonderful acting partner. You feel very safe with him. ↗

— Delta Burke

#church #did #emotional #feel #getting

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