#promise

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

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 Allen

#day #dream #dreams #ideal #last

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#cia #compromised #handed #i #many

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

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

— Enid Bagnold

#built #compromise #gross #name #second

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#disappointing #least #man #promises #vote

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#because #belong #cannot #compromises #grants

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#flown #full #gets #like #nest

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say! ↗

— Mary Douglas

#disappointment #expectations #go #hand #i