#promise

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#land #lies #other #promised #promised land

In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#forgive #him #likely #made #president

At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#both #community #deficit #his #honors

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth? ↗

— Anna Freud

#earth #joy #only #promised #were

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#nothing #poor #promise

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#approaching #arriving #departing #ever #farther

I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#go #i #myself #play #promise

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#advancing #competing #demands #efforts #fiat

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#beyond #costs #go #hypocrisy #intending

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#barter #benefit #compromise #enjoyment #every