#promise

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#born #bred #characteristics #children #country

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#producing #spoiled #time #utterly #world

Mal: Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don’t push me, and I won’t push you. Dong le ma? ↗

— Joss Whedon

#firefly #men

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#adversary #compromise #conflicting #deprived #due

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#find #norway #way

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left. ↗

— Robert Bork

#because #change #congress #constitution #constitutional

April is a promise that May is bound to keep. ↗

— Hal Borland

#bound #keep #may #promise

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time. ↗

— Sarah Brightman

#i #person #sort #time #wife

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone. ↗

— Hermann Broch

#alone #always #hope #important #keeping

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles. ↗

— Ann Marie Buerkle

#i #principles #willing #won