#promise

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#doctor #heed #illness #kindness #knowledge

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. ↗

— Quintilian

#boy #critical #develops #faculty #gives

We promised new benefits to seniors like preventive screening and diabetes testing. We kept that promise. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#diabetes #kept #like #new #preventive

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#easier #more #overstated #people #promised

I don't compromise my principles for politics. ↗

— Chris Christie

#i #politics #principles

Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you'll create credit... So you reach a certain point that that you can't do that anymore... There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred? ↗

— Ray Dalio

#best #certain #certain point #choices #create

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing. ↗

— Eric Davis

#anything #because #better #day #enjoy

I also want to draw attention to the responsibilities that people have to live up to their election promises and to live up to the votes that were cast by the people of Wales, in the General Election, in the expectation that we would deliver this promise. ↗

— Ron Davies

#attention #by the people #cast #deliver #draw

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#compromise #concession #conciliation #deemed #equivalent

It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group. ↗

— Charles Edison

#any #elect #elected #governor #group