#promise

I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going. ↗

— Barbara Mandrell

#believe #blesses #eager #feet #first

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. ↗

— Francis Marion

#fruit #japanese #like #make #often

The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams. ↗

— Ed Markey

#brown #child #color #decision #dreams

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them. ↗

— John McCarthy

#forget #forgetting #get #harmful #made

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died. ↗

— Giacomo Meyerbeer

#always #died #his #i #live

We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people. ↗

— Bob Ney

#coverage #honor #legal #moral #moral obligation

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#amendment #compromise #constitution #embodied #expedient

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' ↗

— Barack Obama

#everybody #good #huh #legislation #like

In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse - a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred - about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#compromise #memory #reality #regret #remorse

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#compromise #conversation #creativity #diversity #left