#promise

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#day #dream #dreams #ideal #last

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. ↗

— Christian Bale

#compromise #proud #something

A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them. ↗

— Freddy Adu

#disappeared #great #hyped #i #just

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#bring #educated #forsaken #i #i can

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

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. ↗

— Red Auerbach

#performance #promise #whole #world #worth

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. ↗

— Enid Bagnold

#built #compromise #gross #name #second

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

All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer. ↗

— James W. Black

#answer #any #could #develop #ever