#promise

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

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

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

We have made a commitment to feed 20-million people over the next two years. We are somewhere around 10 million. But I can promise you that we are not going to stop at 20 million. Because hunger, there is almost no cure for it. You can take care of the problem today, but it is a recurring problem. ↗

— Paula Deen

#around #because #care #commitment #cure

You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#disappear #i #know #me #promise

A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true. ↗

— Ray Evans

#lovely #must #promise #rain #remain

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. ↗

— John Burroughs

#always #anything #currency #gold #having

But the people of Arizona, the people of America, have been promised that our borders would be secured for years and years and years, with it not happening. And I don't believe the people of America, certainly not the people of Arizona, are ready to discuss anything other at this point in time other than securing our borders. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#anything #arizona #been #believe #borders