#promise

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

There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in. ↗

— Mariano Rajoy

#before #come #done #miracles #never

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense. ↗

— Jeanette Rankin

#common #common sense #compromise #controlled #decency

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#anything #assuming #become #believing #disenchanted

I never want to compromise my act just to get a laugh. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#compromise #get #i #just #laugh

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#america #because #disappointment #division #gave

President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#family #heal #help #obama #oceans

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#america #been #better #better life #build

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#conflicting #expression #frank #governmental #greatest

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

#development #either #even #improvement #itself